"That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!"
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"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
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"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."
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"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
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"The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."
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"Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul."
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"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
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"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."
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"This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy."
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"I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself"
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"You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys."
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"A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness."
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"In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many."
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'"
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"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"
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"Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search."
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"Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."
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