"But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!"
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"I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come."
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"The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself."
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"To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength."
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"Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep."
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"That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal."
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"By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves."
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"No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first."
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"Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven."
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"[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty."
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"Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications."
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"And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us."
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"Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?"
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"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."
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"Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties."
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"This world is the will to power and nothing besides!"
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"I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed."
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"There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized."
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"I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge."
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"I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going."
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