"That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors."
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"Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves."
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"Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment."
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"Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity."
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"You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."
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"Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will."
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"I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones."
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"We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment."
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"He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)"
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"The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings."
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"To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you."
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"The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start."
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"In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings."
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"Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart."
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"Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just."
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"Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes."
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"It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring."
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"Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?"
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"Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is."
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"This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards."
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