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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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On every parable you ride to every truth.

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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

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I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

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Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

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