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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
Friedrich Nietzsche