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He preaches no religious superficialities whatsoever, nothing at all of worship, nothing of God; he is truly godless.

— Constantin Brunner Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)

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From the midst of the flat plain of human reason, there arises the terrible, fire-spewing mountain of genius.

Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)

Christ, with whom the multitude could not deal other than by making him into God Himself, thus enabling itself to venerate as God him whom they had loathed as man.

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Socrates and Christ speak to us everlastingly of mankind.

Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)

Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically.

"Get thee behind me, Satan!" — he was and remained truly free of the world.

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