“Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.”

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, book The Will to Power

Sec. 685 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.95-7, KSA 13.303-5)
The Will to Power (1888)

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