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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

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For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

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