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"Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'"
"The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world."
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
"It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face."
"All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings."
"Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men."
"There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity."
"Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height."
"In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man."
"Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity."
"Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world."
"We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world."
"This world is the will to power and nothing besides!"
"Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come."
"For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified."
"To the fool-king belongs the world."
"For the world is only governed by self-interest."
"The world's history is the world's judgment."
"Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger."
"It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself."
