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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

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

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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

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