"Fear is the mother of morality."
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"What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father."
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"Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed."
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"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
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"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
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"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
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"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"
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"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."
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"When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!""
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"The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book."
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"But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil."
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"What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger"
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"But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?"
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"
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"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
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"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."
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"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
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"For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!"
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."
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"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"
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