The 53rd edition of the Carnival of the Godless is up at Debunking Christianity. I was the editor.
God Quote Sunday #3:
God Quote Sunday #3:
"Gentle is Zarathustra to the sickly. Verily, he is not indignant at their modes of consolation and ingratitude. May they become convalescents and overcomers, and create higher bodies for themselves! Neither is Zarathustra indignant at a convalescent who looketh tenderly on his delusions, and at midnight stealeth round the grave of his God; but sickness and a sick frame remain even in his tears. Many sickly ones have there always been among those who muse, and languish for God; violently they hate the discerning ones, and the latest of virtues, which is uprightness. Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, indeed, were delusion and faith something different. Raving of the reason was likeness to God, and doubt was sin."
"You are young and wish for a child and marriage. But I ask you: Are you a man entitled to wish for a child? Are the victorious one, the self-conqueror, the commander of your sense, the master of your virtues? This I ask of you. Or is it the animal and need that speak out of your wish? Or loneliness? Or lack of peace with yourself?"
"You pass over and beyond them: but the higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly."
"I teach you not the neighbor, but the friend. The friend should be the festival of the earth to you and an anticipation of the overman. I teach you the friend and his overflowing heart. But one must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow. I teach you the friend in whom the world stands completed, a bowl of goodness - the creating friend who always has a completed world to give away. And as the world rolled apart for him, it rolls together again in circles for him, as the becoming of the good through evil, as the becoming of purpose out of accident."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1891 (full-text here)
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