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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

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I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

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He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

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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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