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is a kind of evil which is necessary for good.

Sacrifice generally, and not just the sacrifice of Jesus, seems to give the feeling of crime... * [See Hubert and Mauss, Sacrifice.] sacrifice is on the side of evil, evil that is necessary for good. (BATAILLE : NIETZSCHE ... 27)

is a practice which we've turned inward. We're still incredibly religious, but instead of 'sacrificing' others, we 'sacrifice' ourselves, and then we 'sacrificed our God', and we are left with 'the nothing' of science.

This spirit of sacrifice was refined so that we no longer sacrificed others, but sacrificed ourselves instead. We surrendered our will, our freedom, and our strength to our God. Having completely sacrificed ourselves, the next logical step was that taken by Christianity: we sacrificed our God, the one thing in which we had placed all our hopes and faith. Having sacrificed our God, we are now left with nothing, and worship rocks, gravity, 'the nothing': we have traded God in for science, and worship that instead. (nietzsche spark beyond )

is, by its very nature, arrogant and impersonal, and the passing of the emotional wave that makes it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair.

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair. . . Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal... sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.F. Scott Fitzgerald

is, for women, such that man should fear woman when she loves, for a woman in love makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her. Friedrich Nietzsche

is no purchase of freedom. It is like a great elective office, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk whose very momentum might drag one down to ruin.

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair. . . Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal... sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. F. Scott Fitzgerald

 always seems to give the feeling of crime (and not just in the sacrifice of Jesus).

 does not bring value to our actions, for a sacrifice is ultimately a sacrifice to our longing for the attainment or conservation of our sense of power.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions... even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power. Friedrich Nietzsche

, with time, was refined so that we no longer sacrificed others, but we sacrificed ourselves instead to a God (i.e. our will, our freedom, and our strength) and then sacrificed our God to science.

This spirit of sacrifice was refined so that we no longer sacrificed others, but sacrificed ourselves instead. We surrendered our will, our freedom, and our strength to our God. Having completely sacrificed ourselves, the next logical step was that taken by Christianity: we sacrificed our God, the one thing in which we had placed all our hopes and faith. Having sacrificed our God, we are now left with nothing, and worship rocks, gravity, 'the nothing': we have traded God in for science, and worship that instead. (nietzsche spark beyond)

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