Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.


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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
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Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
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I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
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The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
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When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
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Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
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My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
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Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
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A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
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We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
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Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
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All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
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