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Pessimistic philosophy will be for the historical period that is now beginning, what the pessimistic religion of Christianity was for the one that has passed. The symbol of our flag is not the crucified redeemer but the angel of death with large, placid and clement eyes, supported by the dove of the idea of redemption; in essence, it is the same symbol.

— Philipp Mainländer Filosofía De La Redención: Antología (2011)

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The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.

The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.

Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.

God has died and His death was the life of the world.

The movement of the cosmos is the movement from over-being to non-being. The universe, however, is the disintegration into multiplicity, that is, into egoistic individualities arrayed against each other. Only in this struggle of essences, which before were a simple unity, can the original essence itself be destroyed.

Filosofía De La Redención: Antología (2011)

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