"i have never pondered over questions that are not questions."
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"Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies"
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"He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself."
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"The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech."
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"Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience."
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"The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness."
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"Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship."
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"He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character."
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"The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life."
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"A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents."
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"Thinking evil is making evil."
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"A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up."
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"But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more."
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"Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience."
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"The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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"There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause."
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"Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again."
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"Pain makes hens and poets cackle."
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