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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

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A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

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Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

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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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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

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