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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

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What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

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To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

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