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| We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful. |
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| We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. |
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| We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance. |
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| We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish. |
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| We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. |
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| We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. |
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| We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. |
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| We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! |
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| We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. |
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| We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. |
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| We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. |
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| We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them. |
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| We, the generous and rich in spirit, who stand at the sides of the streets like open fountains and would hinder no one drinking from us. . . . |
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| What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth |
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| What a time experiences as evil is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good-the atavism of a more ancient ideal. |
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| What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. |
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