You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause! - Friedrich Nietzsche

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself — in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity — is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. They are deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see "forms."

أنظروا إلى المؤمنين بجميع المعتقدات تعلموا من هو ألد أعدائهم إنه من يحطم الألواح التي حفروا عليها سننهم، ذلك هو الهدام، ذلك هو المجرم، غير أنه هو المبدع.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?