"A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us."
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"The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes."
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"Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)"
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"While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed."
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"There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves."
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"We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that."
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"For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again."
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"Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones."
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"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."
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"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."
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"Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker."
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"Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness."
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"Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality."
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"But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration."
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"Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre."
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"The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep."
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"The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony."
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"There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism."
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"One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long."
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"... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered."
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