Underneath The Reality In Which

In A Man Devoted To Knowledge, Pity Seems Almost Ridiculous, Like Delicate Hands On A Cyclops.

I Climb Upon The Highest Mountains, Laughing At All Tragedies - Whether Real Or Imaginary.

Christianity Has Taken The Part Of All The Weak, The Low, The Botched; It Has Made An Ideal Out Of Antagonism To All The Self Preservative Instincts Of Sound Life; It Has Corrupted Even The Faculties Of Those Natures That Are Intellectually Most Vigorous, By Representing The Highest Intellectual Values As Sinful, As Misleading, As Full Of Temptation.

Go Through The Moral Demands...one By One And You Will Find That Man Could Not Live Up To Them; The Intention Is Not That He Should Become More Moral, But That He Should Feel As Sinful As Possible. If Man Had Failed To Find This Feeling Pleasant - Why Should He Have Engendered Such An Idea And Adhered To It For So Long?... Man Was By Every Means To Be Made Sinful And Thereby Become Excited, Animated, Enlivened In General. To Excite, Animate, Enliven At Any Price.

There Still Shines The Most Important Nuance By Virtue Of Which The Noble Felt Themselves To Be Men Of A Higher Rank. They Designate Themselves Simply By Their Superiority In Power (as "the Powerful," "the Masters," "the Commanders") Or By The Most Clearly Visible Signs Of This Superiority, For Example, As "the Rich," "the Possessors" (this Is The Meaning Of 'arya,' And Of Corresponding Words In Iranian And Slavic).