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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

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Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

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We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

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