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Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

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As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

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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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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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Scoundrels are always sociable.

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

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