"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
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"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
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"We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God."
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"There is always some madness in love."
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"To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain."
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"Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent."
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"It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much."
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"Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering."
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"the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls"
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"Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
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"Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity."
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"Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it."
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"Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch."
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"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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