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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
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Schatten in der Flamme. - Die Flamme ist sich selber nicht so hell, als den Anderen, denen sie leuchtet: so auch der Weise.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.