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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.