"There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius."
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"Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure."
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"Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale."
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"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race."
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"The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman."
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"God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!"
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"Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world."
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"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."
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"Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive."
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"From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?"
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"The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite."
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"The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason."
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"There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb."
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
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"Every past is worth condemning."
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"Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid."
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"The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved."
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"Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose."
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"Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?"
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"Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be."
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