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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

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Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

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To the mean all becomes mean.

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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

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