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| "I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields. |
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| ''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. |
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| ''To give style'' to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye. |
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| 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? |
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| 'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true |
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| . . . thinking is merely a relation of. . . . drives [desires, passions] to each other . . . |
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| ...no pain has been or shall be able to tempt me into giving false testimony about life as I recognize it. |
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| A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. |
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| A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. |
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| A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian. |
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| A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still |
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| A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. |
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| A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends. |
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| A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. |
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| A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. |
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| A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. |
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| A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access |
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| A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . . |
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| A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions. |
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