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I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

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Man must become better and more evil.

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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

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All words are prejudices.

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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

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One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

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