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""When the Christian crusaders in the Orient came across that invincible order of Assassins – that order of free spirits par excellence whose lowest order received, through some channel or other, a hint about that symbol and spell reserved for the uppermost echelons alone, as their secret: "nothing is true, everything is permitted". Now that was freedom of the spirit, with that, belief in truth itself was renounced." (Nietzsche,Genealogy of Morals---(and that's not to approve of the typical frat boys who use Nietzsche's writing as justification for their light-weight nihilism)

LA Times/911