Atheists

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§324(The Wanderer and His Shadow)
“To become a thinker.? How can one become a thinker if he does not spend at least a third of the day without passions, people and books?”

§90(Mixed Opinions and Maxims)
“The good and the good conscience.? Do you think that every good thing has always had a good conscience? ? Science, which is certainly something good, entered the world without one, and quite destitute of pathos, but did so rather in secret, by crooked and indirect paths, hooded or masked like a criminal and at least always with the feeling of dealing in contraband. The good conscience has as a preliminary stage the bad conscience?the latter is not its opposite: for everything good was once new, consequently unfamiliar, contrary to custom, immoral, and gnawed at the heart of its fortunate inventor like a worm.”

§326(The Wanderer and His Shadow)
“Don’t touch!? There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can’t hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit it at all.”

§333(The Wanderer and His Shadow)
“Dying for the “truth.”? We should not let ourselves be burnt by our opinions: we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this: that we may have and change our opinions.”

§348(The Wanderer and His Shadow)
“Measure of wisdom.? Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.”

§122(Mixed Opinions and Maxims)
“Good memory.? Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.”

§168(Mixed Opinions and Maxims)
“Praise of aphorisms.? A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time and is not consumed by all millennia, although it serves every time for nourishment: this it is the great paradox of literature, the intransitory amid the changing, the food that always remains esteemed, like salt, and never loses its savor, as even that does.”

§340(Mixed Opinions and Maxims)
“To one who is praised.? So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”

§1( Mixed Opinions and Maxims)
“To the disappointed of philosophy.? If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?”

§1(The Dawn - book 1)
“Rationality ex post facto.? Whatever lives long is gradually so saturated with reason that its irrational origins become improbable. Does not almost every accurate history of the origin of something sound paradoxical and sacrilegious to our feelings? Doesn’t the good historian contradict all the time?”

§20(The Dawn - book 1)
“Free-doers and freethinkers.? Free-doers are at a disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts. If one considers, however, that both the one and the other are in search of gratification, and that in the case of the freethinker the mere thinking through and enunciation of forbidden things provides this gratification, both are on an equal footing with regard to motive: and with regard to consequences the decision will even go against the freethinker, provided one does not judge?as all the world does?by what is most immediately and crassly obvious. One has to take back much of the defamation which people have cast upon all those who broke through the spell of a custom by means of a deed?in general, they are called criminals. Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted the predicate gradually changed;?history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!”

§97(The Dawn - book 2)
“One becomes moral?not because one is moral!? Submission to morality can be slavish or vain or self-interested or resigned or obtusely enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of desperation, like submission to a prince: in itself it is nothing moral.”

§101(The Dawn - book 2)
“Doubtful.? To accept a belief just because it is customary?but that means: to be dishonest, to be cowardly, to be lazy!? And do dishonesty, cowardice, and laziness then appear as the presuppositions of morality?”

§123(The Dawn - book 2)
“Reason.? How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.”

§236(The Dawn - book 4)
“Punishment.? A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does.”