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“Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.”

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Agnes Repplier

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist born on April 1, 1855, and died on November 15, 1950. Her works are renowned for their profound thoughts and unique style, which have had a profound impact on American literature in the 20th century. more

“A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.”

Thinking Mind Earth Christian Joy Certain Religious Masters Pride Hatred Oneself Noble Senses Cruelty Mortals Hostility

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.”

People World Heart Real Spirit Religious Conditions Expression Creatures Protest Distress Oppressed Sigh Heartless Opium God Is Not Great

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.”

Certain Religious Teaching Diamond

Author:Thomas Jefferson

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