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"Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance."
"There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only."
"Life is work, and everything you do is so much more experience. Sometimes you work for wages, sometimes not, but what does anybody make but a living? And whatever you have you must either use or lose."
"Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard."
"In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do"
"It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct."
"It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin."
"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."
"The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so."
"I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles."
"He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored"
"If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly."
"I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception."
"Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
"He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman."
"One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one."
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
"In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase."
"Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?"
"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal."
