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Sacrifice (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠men understand has its reward in their approval and so is not the true sacrifice, which must be unconditionally without reward.

Sacrifice (n.) when ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠merely human abandons the world but stays within it — hoping to be understood and talked about; it climbs to a high place and notices that it is seen.

Sacrifice (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the Christian sense, to stand on the height of sacrifice looking to everyone as if you stood at the lowest level of the contemptible — humanly, madness.

Sacrifice (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠being sacrificed is far greater than triumphing in the world, since triumph in an imperfect world means identification with its paltriness; the world's judgment of greatness matters only as unconscious sarcasm.

Sacrifice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not what the husband makes for wife and children — he finds in them his satisfaction; let the aesthete beware lest the greater things he sacrifices himself for deceive him.

Sacrifice (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠must be repeated confesses its own ambiguity; only where sin is actually posited is atonement posited, and its sacrifice is not repeated.

Sacrifice (n.) exists ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only where the act absolutely contradicts the feeling: Abraham must love Isaac even more dearly when God requires him — if he hated Isaac, it would be Cain's deed.

Sacrifice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the lot of two or three in every generation, driven through frightful suffering to discover what helps the rest.

Sacrifice (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a man the kernel the world throws away; God and the world suit each other like two people eating nuts, one liking only shells and the other only kernels.