"Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies."
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"The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage."
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"Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning."
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"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."
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"[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence."
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"[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth."
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"[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully."
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"[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth."
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"The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses."
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"Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics."
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"Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under."
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"Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils."
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"As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights."
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"There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves."
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"Respectability offends my taste."
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"We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets."
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"The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad."
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"All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are."
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"Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness."
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"Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad."
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