"Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely."
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"Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions."
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"The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune."
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"...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive."
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"But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?"
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"The future influences the present just as much as the past."
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"Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all."
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"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."
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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them."
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"Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing."
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"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
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"Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things."
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"All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible."
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"Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin."
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"Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!"
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"Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things."
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"Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves."
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"The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow."
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"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
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"When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do."
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