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Christianity must now burden the heart before it can lighten it, and so will decline
Drawn from what Friedrich Nietzsche said
What Friedrich Nietzsche actually said
- Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 to 1900)
Christianity arose to lighten the heart, but now it must first make the heart heavy in order to be able to lighten it afterwards. Christianity will consequently go down.
Where this was said
↗Human, All Too Human (1878; Alexander Harvey translation, 1908)gutenberg.org
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