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"To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so."
"There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions."
"The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation."
"Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none."
"What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man."
"But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world."
"The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!"
"We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us."
"Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it."
"It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place."
"Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free."
"There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication."
"Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise."
"Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame."
"The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end."
"They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!"
"What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent"
"Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey."
"Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction."
"I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals."