Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering.

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.