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Eigene Meinungen. - Die erste Meinung, welche uns einfällt, wenn wir plötzlich über eine Sache befragt werden, ist gewöhnlich nicht unsere eigene, sondern nur die landläufige, unserer Kaste, Stellung, Abkunft zugehörige; die eigenen Meinungen schwimmen selten oben auf.
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Every past is worth condemning.
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.