"But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?"
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"It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!"
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"I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts."
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"When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful."
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"Energy wasted on negative ends."
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
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"I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent."
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"There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?"
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"This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!"
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"With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them."
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"Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals."
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"Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it."
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"One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this."
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"In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience."
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"I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that."
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"You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?"
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"if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how."
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