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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

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Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

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[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

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The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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