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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
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At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
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Every one who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.