The Most Fatal Seductive Lie That Has

What We Call Truths Are Just Those Errors That We Cannot Give Up.

"god", "immortality Of The Soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without Exception, Concepts To Which I Have Never Devoted Any Attention, Or Time; Not Even As A Child. Perhaps I Have Never Been Childlike Enough For Them? I Do Not By Any Means Know Atheism As A Result; Even Less As An Event: It Is A Matter Of Course With Me, From Instinct. I Am Too Inquisitive, Too Questionable, Too Exuberant To Stand For Any Gross Answer. God Is A Gross Answer, An Indelicacy Against Us Thinkers - At Bottom Merely A Gross Prohibition For Us: You Shall Not Think!

Error Has Made Man So Deep, Sensitive, And Inventive That He Has Put Forth Such Blossoms As Religions And Arts. Pure Knowledge Could Not Have Been Capable Of It.

A Man As He Ought To Be: That Sounds To Us As Insipid As "a Tree As It Ought To Be.

Live So That Thou Mayest Desire To Live Again - That Is Thy Duty - For In Any Case Thou Wilt Live Again!