“Is man merely a mistake of God’s?
Or God merely a mistake of man?”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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Well written, but sad, like Nietzsche. Here is an interesting entry from Nietzsche’s diary when he was 24 or 25. “What frightens me is not the ghastly figure behind my chair, but its voice. Not the words it utters, but the horribly inarticulate and inhuman sounds. If only it could talk like a human being.”
(Andrews, Wayne. Siegfried’s Curse: The German Journey from Nietzsche to Hesse. New York: Atheneum, 1972, p. 30.)
Nietzsche was a strange, complicated yet brilliant philosopher, haunted by life and the demons he created as he moved back and forth between sanity and and the darkness of his tortured soul…
“Though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.” ~ Christopher Hitchens