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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

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There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

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[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

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Unrest is the mark of existence.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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