One Is Proud To Worship When He

The "religion Of Pity" To Which People Would Like To Convert Us- Oh, We Know Well Enough The Hysterical Little Men And Women Who Need This Religion At Present As A Veil And An Adornment!

The Real World Is Much Smaller Than The Imaginary

Truly, It Is A Blessing And Not A Blasphemy When I Teach That "above All Things There Stands The Heaven Of Chance, The Heaven Of Innocence, The Heaven Of Accident, The Heaven Of Wantonness".

There Is A Great Ladder Of Religious Cruelty, And, Of Its Many Rungs, Three Are The Most Important. People Used To Make Human Sacrifices To Their God, Perhaps Even Sacrificing Those They Loved The Best ... Then, During The Moral Epoch Of Humanity, People Sacrificed The Strongest Instincts They Had, Their 'nature,' To Their God... Finally: What Was Left To Be Sacrificed? ... Didn't People Have To Sacrifice God Himself And Worship Rocks, Stupidity, Gravity, Fate, Or Nothingness Out Of Sheer Cruelty To Themselves?

Those With Certain Temperaments Find No Way To Endure Themselves Except By Striving Towards Going Under.