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Marx hated the gods because the very idea that there might be a divinity outside of man necessarily meant oppression of the individual. He hated the concept of God because it prevented human beings from achieving their rightful human fulfillment and so he went beyond his role model, Prometheus, by not just defying the gods, but denying their very existence.

He has the unquestionable right to put an end to his sufferings by death… the voluntary death by which a man puts an end to intolerable suffering is really an act of redemption…no feeling man who has any real “Christian love for his neighbor“ will grudge his suffering brother the eternal rest and the freedom from pain which he has obtained by his self redemption. -Haeckel

Genuine heroism takes place within the realm of the real.

Even if Nietzsche would not have believed in Nazism, it is clear that Nazism believed in him.

Live dangerously is Zarathustra’s wise counsel.

Dissociating reason from life impairs life and deprives it of its protection and proper direction. The culture of life, then, is a culture that celebrates the unification of life, freedom, and reason.

When evil and being are considered synonymous, it is apparent that a culture of death will ensue.

Biographies make clear that ideas have consequences only because they are created, embraced, and lived out in persons.

We have, in depersonalizing ourselves, oddly enough, become our own idolaters.

these architects reject the central image of Christianity and replace it with a new image, one in which humanity is the unintended result of blind natural forces rather than a creation of God in his own image and, consequently, one in which human beings are purely material creatures cast into existence by indifferent nature and forced to define salvation for themselves.

But why do they love me so, when I’m unworthy of it!

“You shed blood!”…”…which everyone sheds, which is and always has been shed in torrents in this world, which men spill like champagne, and for which they’re crowned on the Capitoline and afterwards called benefactors of mankind.

The people are drinking, the educated youth are burning themselves up in idleness, in unrealizable dreams and fancies, crippling themselves with theories;

when a girl’s heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She’s sure to want to ‘save’ him then…

One seldom finds a place where there are so many gloomy, sharp and strange influences on the soul of man as in Petersburg.

And I’m sure you’ll ‘decide to embrace suffering’; you won’t take my word for it now, but you’ll come around to it yourself. Because suffering, Rodion Romanych, is a great thing;

“But you did, Rodin Romanych! You killed them, sir…” he added, almost in a whisper, in a completely convinced tone.

Was it the old crone I killed? I killed myself?

I just wanted to dare, Sonya, that’s the whole reason!

[he] met her anxious and painfully caring eyes fixed upon him; here was love; his hatred vanished like a phantom. That was not it; he had mistaken one feeling for another.

Raskolnikov had been an energetic and spirited advocate of Sonya against Luzhin, even though he was burdened with so much horror and suffering in his own soul.

I will no allow anyone to use violence against me… On principle. Because it amounts to despotism.

Everybody has topics for discussion… but people of the neuter kind, like us, are all easily embarrassed and have trouble talking… do we have no social interests, or is it that we’re too honest and don’t want to deceive each other…

he was already a skeptic; he was young, abstract, and consequently cruel;

“God, God won’t allow such horror!”
“He allows it with others.”

he drove all further thoughts away still more timorously, and was afraid of his own imagination.

rarely, of course, has anyone carried away so much spiteful hatred in his heart as this man felt for Raskolnikov. He blamed him, and him alone, for everything.