"The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways."
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"The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways."
"The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous."
"What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew."
"Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight."
"Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat."
"The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself."
"Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand."
"I have forgotten my umbrella."
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off."
"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
"It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention."
"The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things."
"I am almost equal to a shadow."
"Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy."
"The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."
"Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se."
"The melancholia of everything completed!"
"Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?"
"Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it."
"Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement."