"If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?"
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"You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause."
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"When gods die, they always die many sorts of death."
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"We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing."
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"Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness."
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."
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"Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly."
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"Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell."
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"The good displeases us when we are not up to it."
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"There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge."
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"Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise."
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"The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it."
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"Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better."
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"Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people."
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"The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise."
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"The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude."
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"Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes."
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"What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!"
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"And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves."
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"Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!"
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