"Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes."
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"If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed."
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"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
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"You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?"
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"The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up."
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
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"One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis."
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"If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed."
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"Woman was God's second mistake."
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"One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity."
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"One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again."
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"One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong."
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"School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance."
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"...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn."
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"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
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"Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude."
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"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
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"The lie is a condition of life."
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