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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

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