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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

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What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

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The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

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