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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

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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 criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

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Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

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