[DI] Socialism applies the same tactics towards Christianity, as Christianity used towards Judaism. Christianity borrowed Israel’s greatest Book, the Bible, written from the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelations, at different times in different languages, but always by the sons of Israel, appropriated the moral tenets of these Jewish prophets and rabbis (Jesus is often addressed by the title rabbi in the New Testament) and repudiated the descendants of these Jewish thinkers. Christianity, for generations, deprived these descendants of the enjoyment of these human rights, their ancestors have woven for mankind, and accused them of forming an element destructive of social peace, in whose great Book social peace and justice were first preached. The Hammurabi codex, which in regard to civil and criminal statutes shows a certain parallelism with the Pentateuch, is far inferior to these books in the multitude of social laws.
[DJ] If you meet with your neighbor on the sidewalk push him into the middle of the road and let him be mangled by the passing vehicles. Then you have made a long stride forward toward the perfect man. If you do not do it to him he will do it to you. Only the stronger has a right to survive, so that a perfect aristocracy may arise. But while this doctrine of the survival of the strongest was with Nietzsche only a philosophical dream, the prototype of the Superman, which is “Push forward; overcome obstacles; take wherever you can find; grasp and do not let go; live your own life fully, it is all you have; let others look out for themselves,” has always been in existence since time immemorial.
[DK] The spirit of this intoxication of work is shown in phrases such as this: “Women deteriorated to the point where she was unfitted to do a fair share of the world’s work.” Is work a privilege or a necessity? Who is the power that has decreed this share of the world’s work? Do animals in freedom work? By the way, the alleged deterioration which presupposes a transmission from mother to daughter, with the exclusion of her son, is a biological impossibility. If the deterioration has become a unit-character, the mother must transmit half of it to her son and half to her daughter, so that boy and girl are still born equal. The only way such deterioration could be transmitted from mother to daughter—who inherits half the good qualities of her father to balance this deterioration—is that it has become a sex-unit-character, like the female breasts, hair or skin, which is contrary to all the teachings of biology. Even Lamarck would never claim that such an acquired characteristic as deterioration for work could be transmitted from mother to daughter with the exclusion of her son. On the other hand, if deterioration is not a unit-character transmissible to the son, it cannot be transmitted to the daughter either.
[DL] When the sweet-sixteen is punished by her mother for flirting with boys, then her personality has been violated.
[DM] This voluptuous sensuality is given naturally the poetical name of love, with which it really has nothing in common except the final sex-expression and its desire.
[DN] The psychic bulwark, says Ch. v. Ehrenfels, against the horrors of the thought of death and against the terrors of existence can only be raised by man when he puts himself into a certain relation to the metaphysical riddles of the universe, into a relation to the contrast between the fleeting and eternal, between the movable and immovable, between the finite and the infinite. The ethical values of individual conduct may be thus characterized as those which are awakened in man, when he places himself, with his wishes and actions, before the tribunal of the eternal and inscrutable. Individual moral conduct, in contrast to social morality which is determined by the moral imperative and ethical relative values, is in this way regulated by the perennial threats of the inevitable appearance of death.
To escape from this thought the morality of love recommends the plunge into the whirl of sensual life. But at the approach of death man sees that the transitory intoxication of the senses is also pure vanity. For it is almost axiomatic among thinking men that the only way to acquire the ability to look upon the terrors of existence and the fleetingness of life with equanimity and consolation is to put their labors in such a direction, where there is hope for the continuation of their works beyond the individual existence far into the infinite, such as the artist hopes of his art, the scientist of his science, and the creative genius of his creation.
[DO] Even Homer, the happy, life-enjoying Greek poet, expresses the same pessimism (Iliad ix, 318).
ἴση μοῖρα μένοντι καὶ εἰ μάλα τις πολεμίζοι
ἐν δὲ ἰῇ τιμῇ ἠμὲν κακὸς ἠδὲ καὶ ἐσθλός