"Sanity is madness put to good use."
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"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid."
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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
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"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway"
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"Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things."
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"The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge."
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"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."
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"Habit is stronger than reason."
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"Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise."
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"There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon."
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"It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss."
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"The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought."
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"Memory itself is an internal rumour."
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"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
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