The fact that in itself the conception of gods is not bound to lead necessarily to this degradation of the imagination (a temporary representation of whose vagaries we felt bound give), the fact that there exist nobler methods of utilising the invention of gods than in this self-crucifixion and self-degradation of man, in which the last two thousand years of Europe have been past masters-these facts can fortunately be still perceived from every glance that we cast at the Grecian gods, these mirrors of noble and grandiose men, in which the animal in man felt itself deified, and did not devour itself in subjective frenzy.
-Bere baitan jainkoen kontzepzioak ez duela derrigor eraman behar fantasiaren txartze horretara, zeinen errepresentazioaz une batean ez baitzaigu zilegi izan gabe egotea, gizakiak bere burua gurutziltzatu eta bilautzea baino jainkoen fikzio poetikoaz baliatzeko era nobleagoak badaudela, zeinetan maisu izan baitira Europako azken milurteak,-hori, zorionez, jainko grekoei, beren buruaren jabeago eta nobleago ziren gizakien errainu horiei zuzenduriko begirada orotatik atera daiteke, zeinetan animalia gizakiarengan jainkoturik sentitzen baitzen eta ez baitzuen bere burua irensten, ez baitzen bere buruaren aurka sumintzen!