“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
“For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.”
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
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Context: Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.
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