"Every word is a prejudice."
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"What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal."
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"It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---"
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"love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself."
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"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
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"How much beer is in German intelligence?"
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"Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture."
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"I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along."
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"Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat."
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"And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams."
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"The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it."
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"Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake."
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"This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts."
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"Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness."
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"Yes, life is a woman!"
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"This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother."
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"The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment."
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"For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity."
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"When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges."
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"He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations."
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