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In his first Papal Encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est" (God is Charity/Love) [[Pope Benedict XVI]] quotes from Nietzche's ''Beyond Good and Evil'', taking very seriously Nietzsche's claim that the Church has poisoned ''eros'' (love) with dogma, and responding to it.
In his first Papal Encyclical, "Deus Caritas Est" (God is Charity/Love) [[Pope Benedict XVI]] quotes from Nietzche's ''Beyond Good and Evil'', taking very seriously Nietzsche's claim that the Church has poisoned ''eros'' (love) with dogma, and responding to it.
==On Women==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "Women are essentially unpeaceful" and "Man is for woman a means; the purpose is always a child. But what is woman for man?"
==On Morality==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.", "With morality, the individual can only ascribe value to himself as a function of the herd", "I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul ... and has its basis in the primary law of things", "all morality is partisan; just as any legal system will favor certain behavior against others" and "who else should we wish to serve, if not ourselves?"
==On Science and Knowledge==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them; the will to systematize is a lack of integrity", "there is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind", "the free-spirit is brought into disrepute chiefly by scholars who miss their thoroughness and ant-like industry in his art of regarding things", "there are many things I do not wish to know, wisdom sets a limit on knowledge too", "the fact that science as we practice it today is possible proves that the elementary instinct which protect life have ceased to function", "we have arranged for ourselves a world in which we are able to live with postulation of bodies, lines, surfaces, causes, and effects, motion and rest, form and content: without these articles of faith, nobody could manage to live", "the irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition for it", "[too much knowledge causes us to] choke on our own reason", "creed of nihilism which I see everywhere is the result of too much learning" and "Any truth which threatens life is no truth at all, it is an error".
==On Democracy==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "As a political subject, it is an illusion to ask myself what I require from the state. In reality, it is a question of what the state requires from me", "culture and the state are antagonistic", "clearly, the individual will is forfeit to the demands of government - a kind of political Darwinism. The herd triumphs against, this time under the banner of the state", "the polite term for 'liberal' is mediocre", "socialism is the fantastic younger brother of an almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeeded", "the doctrine of free will is an invention of the ruling classes" and "madness is something rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, ages, it is the rule".
==On Nihilism==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "man would sooner have the void for his purpose than void of purpose".
==on Darwinian Evolution==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "... happy accidents are eliminated, the more highly evolved types lead nowhere; it is the average and below average types which invariably ascend" and "it is not the quantity, but the quality of humanity that we must seek to increase".
==On Philosophy==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "Philosophy is the dressing-up in rational argument of moral beliefs, intuitions and desires".
==On Religion==
Friedrich Nietzsche said "the religious nature follows the path of self-denial" and "they honored something in themselves when they honored the saint ... self mastery and the well to power".
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