"In faith in what? In love of what? In hope of what?— These weak people—some day or other they too intend to be the strong, there is no doubt of that, some day their “kingdom” too shall come —they term it “the kingdom of God," of course, as aforesaid: for one is so very humble in all things! [...]
Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription “I too was created by eternal love”—at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise and its “eternal bliss” the inscription “I too was created by eternal hate" —provided a truth may be placed above the gateway to a lie!"
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, traduction by Walter Kaufmann