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No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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Time is that in which all things pass away.

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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

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What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

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Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

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Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

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Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

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alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

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