"Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality."
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"One has renounced the great life when one renounces war."
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"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss."
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"Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit."
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"When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts."
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"He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!"
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"Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten."
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"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."
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"To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together."
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"Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it."
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"Those who create are hard of heart."
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"Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters."
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"Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so."
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"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
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"The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts."
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"If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
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