"Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth."
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"Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one."
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"The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture."
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"Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive."
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"To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society."
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"We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago."
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"Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate."
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"Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry."
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"Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man."
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"For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified."
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"Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him."
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"Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture."
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"I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride."
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"It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel."
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"How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss."
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"Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man."
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"We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on."
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"Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal."
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"The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it."
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"The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself."
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