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The usual judgments are judgments of interest and they tell us less about the nature of the person judged than about the interest of the one who judges.

— Constantin Brunner

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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