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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
Friedrich Nietzsche