“Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

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