"I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!"
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"The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it."
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"And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over."
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"And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets."
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"In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part."
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"The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people."
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"Man is something that is to be surpassed."
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"I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well."
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"Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it."
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"The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth."
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"What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!"
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"Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil."
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"But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!"
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"A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others."
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"Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves."
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"Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can."
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"But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more"."
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"It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime."
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"What the father kept silent the son speaks out."
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"The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy."
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