In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.