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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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Es gibt in der Welt einen einzigen Weg, auf welchem niemand gehen kann, außer dir: wohin er führt? Frage nicht, gehe ihn.
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
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I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.
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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.