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Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

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

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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

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But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

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Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

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I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

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Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

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Life without music is no life at all.

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