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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.

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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

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We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

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That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

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