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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.

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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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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

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Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

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

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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

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There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

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