Citat #14

“- At this point I shall not suppress a sigh. There are days when I am haunted by a feeling blacker than the blackest melancholy – contempt of man. And so as to leave no doubt as to what I despise, whom I despise: it is the contemporary. The man of today, the man with whom I am fatefully contemporary. The man of today – I suffocate at his impure breath… With regard to the past I am, like all men of knowledge, of a large tolerance, that is to say a magnanimous self-control: I traverse the madhouse-world of entire millennia, be it called ‘Christianity’, ‘Christian faith’, ‘Christian Church’, with a gloomy circumspection – I take care not to make mankind responsible for its insanities. But my feelings suddenly alter, burst forth, immediately I enter the modern age, our age. Our age knows… What was formerly merely morbid has today become indecent – it is indecent to be a Christian today. And here is where my disgust commences. – I look around me: there is no longer a word left of what was formerly called ‘truth’,  we no longer endure it when a priest so much as utters the word ‘truth’. Even with the modest claim to integrity one must know today that a theologian, a priest, a pope does not merely err in every sentence he speaks, he lies – that he is no longer free to lie ‘innocently’, out of ‘ignorance’. The priest knows as well as anyone that there is no longer any ‘God’, any ’sinner’, any ‘redeemer’ -that ‘free will’, ‘moral world-order’ are lies – intellectual seriousness, the profound selv-overcoming of the intellect, no longer permits anyone not to know of these things….”

- Nietzsche: Antikrist

Citat #13

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
- Voltaire

Citat #12

“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

Citat #11

“(…) You say the world around us belongs fairly to the few
But about six billion people no doubt will agree
This world is our home, not your property”

- David Rovics, The Commons

Citat #10

“Thank God I’m an atheist.”

- Keith Allen

Citat #9

“For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.”

– Bertrand Russell, “The Case for Socialism”

Citat #7

“Moses vendte forvirret tilbage til Herren for at beklage sig:
- Hvorfor er Du så ond mod folket? Er det derfor Du sendte mig til dem? Du har ikke gjort tingene lettere, og de er heller ikke blevet frigjort fra Farao.
- Jeg er ved at forhærde hans hjerte.
- Igen. Du forhærder hans hjerte? Hvorfor skal hans hjerte forhærdes?
- For at tillade Mig at vise en magt større end alle hans troldmænds og alle andre guders magt. Og for at vise verden for evigt at I er det folk Jeg har udavalgt som mine yndlinge.
- Vil det gøre nogen forskel?
- Ingen som helst forskel.
- Hvad er så fornuften i det?
- Hvem har nogen sinde påstået at Jeg skulle være fornuftig? svarede Gud. – Vis mig hvor der står at Jeg er fornuftig. Jeg har aldrig lovet fornuft. Fornuft forlanger han. Jeg skænker mælk. Jeg skænker honning. Ikke fornuft. Åh, Moses, Moses, hvorfor tale om fornuft? Dit navn er græsk, og Grækenland er ikke engang opstået endnu. Og du kræver fornuft. Hvis du vil have fornuft, så kan du ikke få en religion.“

Joseph Heller: Gud Ved
(Fed skrift tilføjet af mig)

Citat #5

“I never believed in fate. You make your own bed, and you sleep in it.”
- Big Ed, Twin Peaks

Citat #5

“Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for us holds good to all eternity the motto, ‘ Eachh one is farthes away from himself’ – as far as ourselves are concerned we are not ‘knowers’”
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Zur Genealogie der Moral

(En filosof, hvis navn jeg har glemt, skulle have sagt, at han ville ønske han kunne citere Nietzsche på hver side han skrev. Det ønsker jeg ikke, jeg regner derimod med, at citere Nietzsche i mindst halvdelen af alle indlæg jeg får lavet her. Manden var genial.)

Citat #3

“When the centre of gravity of life is laid, not in life, but in a beyond – in nonentity, -life is utterly robbed of its balance. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all reason, all nature in the instincts, -everything in the instincts that is beneficent, that promotes life and that is a guarantee of the future, henceforward aroused suspicion. The very meaning of life is now construed as the effort to live in such a way that life no longer has any point…”

- Nietzsche: Antikrist