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There's no defense against stupidity.
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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Man must become better and more evil.
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.