"Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing."
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"And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it."
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"The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love."
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"A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers."
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."
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"Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation."
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"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"."
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"Man is more ape than many of the apes."
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"Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?"
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"No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is."
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"I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument."
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"A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable."
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"no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any"
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"Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired."
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"One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it."
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"We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times."
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"The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility."
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"Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity."
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"However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!"
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"The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death."
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