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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

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If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

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To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

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Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

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When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

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