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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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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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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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Eigene Meinungen. - Die erste Meinung, welche uns einfällt, wenn wir plötzlich über eine Sache befragt werden, ist gewöhnlich nicht unsere eigene, sondern nur die landläufige, unserer Kaste, Stellung, Abkunft zugehörige; die eigenen Meinungen schwimmen selten oben auf.
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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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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
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