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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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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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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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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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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
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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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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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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
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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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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
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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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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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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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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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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.