"One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives."
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"To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness"
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"Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste."
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"Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity."
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"He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success."
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"The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men."
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"What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger."
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"The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable."
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"In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment."
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"Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso."
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"In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!"
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"I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man."
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"Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?"
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"Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat."
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"All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts."
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"For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil."
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"Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip"
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"The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task."
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""Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price."
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