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"Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous."
"In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value."
"A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence."
"I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around."
""Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it."
"If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained."
"I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere."