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| To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher. |
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| To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task |
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| To produce music is also in a sense to produce children |
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| To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied. |
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| To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth. |
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| To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike |
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| To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. |
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| To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -- and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. |
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| Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity |
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| Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear. |
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| Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself. |
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| Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself. |
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| Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. |
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| War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. |
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| War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity |
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| We advance our race by creating truth and imposing it on the world. |
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| We are franker towards others than towards ourselves |
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| We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as our places of safety! |
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