"And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!"
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"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal."
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"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal."
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"It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper."
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"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
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"The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses."
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"Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming."
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"As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal."
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
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"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."
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"It is the good war that hallows every cause."
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"Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today."
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"Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement."
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"Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises."
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"Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals."
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"Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?"
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
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