"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."
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"Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions."
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"My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light."
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"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."
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"What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so."
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"The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned."
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"Plato was a bore."
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"The doer alone learneth."
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"The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it."
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"Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights."
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"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
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"Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven."
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"Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!"
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"The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires."
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"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."
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"Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results."
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"God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him."
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"The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger."
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."
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