"Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth."
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"Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy."
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""Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it."
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"The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower."
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"Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths."
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"Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."
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"The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world."
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"To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel."
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"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
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"Every talent must unfold itself in fighting."
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"What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it."
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"I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil."
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"As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion."
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"We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers."
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"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."
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"I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
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"Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures."
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"A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity."
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"Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous."
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"The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile."
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