"As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified."
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"A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power."
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"When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass."
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"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."
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"Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist."
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"All philosophy is a form of confession."
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"It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience."
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"Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness"."
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"To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!"
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"Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too."
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"Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect."
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"There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie."
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"Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief."
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"Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself."
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"One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth."
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"A thing can only live through a pious illusion."
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"There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation."
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"So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!"
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"He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart."
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"Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments."
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