The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her tr...
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
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