One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Man is the cruelest animal.
Science is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin.
Thus a certain false psychology, a certain kind of fantasy in interpreting motives and experiences, is the necessary prerequisite for becoming a Christian and experiencing the need for redemption. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian. The belief that the world as it ought to be is, really exists, is a belief of the unproductive who do not desire to create a world as it ought to be. It is a measure of the degree of strength of will to what extent one can do without meaning in things, to what extent one can endure to live in a meaningless world because one organizes a small part of it oneself. In God nothingess defied, the will to nothingness sanctified . . . .