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Single Idea 14837

[from 'Human, All Too Human' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity ]

Full Idea

Christ, whom we like to imagine as having the warmest of hearts, furthered men's stupidity, took the side of the intellectually weak, and kept the greatest intellect from being produced: and this was consistent.

Gist of Idea

Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 235)

Book Reference

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.145


A Reaction

Thomas Aquinas was a stupendous intellect. The surest way to be swept forward on a wave of popularity is to find some reason why the uneducated are superior to the educated.