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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

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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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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

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One has to know the size of one's stomach.

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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

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Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

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One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

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