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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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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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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
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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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Every past is worth condemning.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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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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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
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Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.-Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.
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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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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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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.