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"Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere."
"If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"
"But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again."
"Much learning does not teach sense."
"But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them."
"Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else."
"Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly."
"Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook."
"What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless."
"When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline."
"Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore."
"The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration."
"If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does."
"Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that."
"If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power."
"I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them."
"Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad."
"One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives."
"And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire."
"When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness."
