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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

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as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

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Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

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The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

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