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:ID: 21debcc1-7dec-4792-a9b4-c753040b4bf5
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:CREATED: [2009-05-15 Fri 22:17]
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:MODIFIED: [2017-09-11 Mon 07:08]
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:IMPORTED: [2023-02-08 Wed 19:22]
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#+title: From Ecce Homo
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"Why do I know more than other people? Why, in general, and I so clever? I have never pondered over questions that are not really questions.I have never wasted my strength. I have no expertise, for instance, of actual religious difficulties."
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"I am quite unacquainted with atheism as a result, and still less as an event: with me it is instinctive. I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers-at bottom. He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!"
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"God's only excuse is that He does not exist"
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"The scholar devotes all his energy to affirming or denying or critisizing matter which has already been thought out-he no longer thinks himself...In him the instinct of selfdefense has decayed, otherwise he would defend himself against books."
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"I am the reverse of a heroic nature. To "will" something, to "strive" after something, to have a "purpose" or a "desire" in my mind - I know none of these things from experience"
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"I have not the slightest wish that anything should be, different than it is"
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"Even to suffer from solitude is an objection-the only thing I have always suffered from is "multitude," the infinite variety of my own soul. At the absurdly tender age of seven, I already knew that no human speech should ever reach me."
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"My formula for greatness in man is amor fati: that a man should wish to have nothing altered, either in the future, the past, or for all eternity. Not only must he endure necessity, and on no account conceal it-all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity-but he must love it...."
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