"Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence."
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"Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best."
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"The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."
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"The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around."
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"The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage."
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"A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done."
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"The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two."
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"I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture."
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"When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you."
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"We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin."
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"The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us."
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"One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom.""
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"What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up."
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"Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so."
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"When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting"."
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"When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy."
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"Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it."
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"A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god."
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"It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know."
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"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."
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