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If one considers what need people have of an external regulation to constrain and steady them, how compulsion, slavery in a higher sense, is the sole and final condition under which the person of weaker will can prosper; then one understands the nature of conviction, "faith."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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