"Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity."
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"Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity."
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"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
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"The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner."
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"Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?"
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"Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power."
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"When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh."
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"Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond."
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"Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!"
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"To produce music is also in a sense to produce children."
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"In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light."
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"Many find their heart when they have lost their head."
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"Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself."
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"I no longer want to walk on worn soles."
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"Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back."
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"In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe."
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"One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge."
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"It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual."
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"What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine."
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"I am no man, I am dynamite."
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