"I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed."
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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
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"Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!"
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"Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!"
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"Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts."
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"That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!"
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"We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage."
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"Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned."
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"One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol."
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"Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals."
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"Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit."
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"A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents."
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"And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values."
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"Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd."
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"Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself."
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"I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul."
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"When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself."
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"Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!"
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"A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy."
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"as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!"
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