"The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one."
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"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
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"Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men."
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"Love, too, has to be learned."
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"For men are not equal: thus speaks justice."
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"We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities."
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"Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."
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"In the end one only experiences oneself."
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"In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought."
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"The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces."
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"It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self."
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things."
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"Love is blind, friends close their eyes"
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"If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip."
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"Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself."
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"The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate."
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"We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be."
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"No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]."
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"Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues."
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"The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan."
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