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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
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Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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This world is the will to power and nothing besides!
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
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You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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One must be born to any superior world — to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy (taking the word in its greatest sense) only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's "blood," decides this, too. Many generations must have worked on the origin of a philosopher; each one of his virtues must have been separately earned, cared for, passed on, and embodied.
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The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!
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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.