"In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum."
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"The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included."
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"Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages."
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"Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self."
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"Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before."
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"Only ideas won by walking have any value."
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"You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?"
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"A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks."
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"Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him."
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"They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way."
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"Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is."
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"The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies."
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"The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth."
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"The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance."
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"He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much."
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"Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated."
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"One should only question gods where none but gods can reply."
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"One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more."
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"Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him."
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"Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive."
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