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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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To the mean all becomes mean.

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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

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The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

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Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

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