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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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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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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

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For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

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

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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

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Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. 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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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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