Nietzsche - Stars will fade... but Christ will shine forever

Nietzsche on self-deception

"I have done that", says my memory. "I cannot have done that" — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields. – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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The delicate atheist

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questioning, too high spirited to be satisfied with such

David Bentley-Hart

Nietzsche’s good manners

[Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all for its devotion to an ethics of compassion--rather than allow himself the soothing, self-righteous fantasy that Christianity's history had been nothing but an interminable pageant of violence,

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The limits of human love

A man who has declared that another is an idiot and a bad companion, is angry when the latter eventually proves himself to be otherwise. — Friedrich Nietzsche, *Human, All Too Human *