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I Am Too Inquisitive, Too Skeptical, Too Arrogant, To Let Myself Be Satisfied With An Obvious And Crass Solution Of Things. God Is Such An Obvious And Crass Solution; A Solution Which Is A Sheer Indelicacy To Us Thinkers - At Bottom He Is Really Nothing But A Coarse Commandment Against Us: Ye Shall Not Think!

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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I Am Too Inquisitive,

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I Am Too Inquisitive, Too Skeptical, Too Arrogant, To Let Myself Be Satisfied With An Obvious And Crass Solution Of Things. God Is Such An Obvious And Crass Solution; A Solution Which Is A Sheer Indelicacy To Us Thinkers - At Bottom He Is Really Nothing But A Coarse Commandment Against Us: Ye Shall Not Think!

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One Should Part From Life As Odysseus Parted From Nausicaa-blessing It Rather Than In Love With It.

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Once The Decision Has Been Made, Close Your Ear Even To The Best Counter Argument: Sign Of A Strong Character. Thus An Occasional Will To Stupidity.

The Destiny Of The Human Race Is To Widen The Gap Separating It From The Lower Races Of Animals. Any Code Of Morality Which Retains Its Permanence And Authority After The Conditions Of Existence Which Gave Rise To It Have Changed, Works Against This Upward Progress Of Man.

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All Idealists Imagine That The Causes They Serve Are Fundamentally Better Than Any Other Causes In The World, And They Refuse To Believe That If Their Cause Is To Flourish At All It Requires Precisely The Same Foul-smelling Manure That Is Necessary To All Other Human Undertakings.

You Know A Moment Is Important When It Is Making Your Mind Go Numb With Beauty.

The Thirst For Equality Can Express Itself Either As A Desire To Draw Everyone Down To One's Level, Or To Raise Oneself And Everyone Else Up.

The Discipline Of Suffering, Of Great Suffering- Do You Not Know That Only This Discipline Has Created All Enhancements Of Man So Far? That Tension Of The Soul In Unhappiness Which Cultivates Its Strength, Its Shudders Face To Face With Great Ruin, Its Inventiveness And Courage In Enduring, Preserving, Interpreting, And Exploiting Suffering, And Whatever Has Been Granted To It Of Profundity, Secret, Mask, Spirit, Cunning, Greatness- Was It Not Granted To It Through Suffering, Through The Discipline Of Great Suffering?

I Love Him Who Reserveth No Share Of Spirit For Himself, But Wanteth To Be Wholly The Spirit Of His Virtue: Thus Walketh He As Spirit Over The Bridge.

Unpleasant, Even Dangerous, Qualities Can Be Found In Every Nation And Every Individual: It Is Cruel To Demand That The Jew Be An Exception. In Him, These Qualities May Even Be Dangerous And Revolting To An Unusual Degree; And Perhaps The Young Stock-exchange Jew Is Altogether The Most Disgusting Invention Of Mankind.

I Will Believe In The Redeemer When The Christians Look A Little More Redeemed.

Historical Refutation As The Definitive Refutation.- In Former Times, One Sought To Prove That There Is No God - Today One Indicates How The Belief That There Is A God Arose And How This Belief Acquired Its Weight And Importance: A Counter-proof That There Is No God Thereby Becomes Superfluous.- When In Former Times One Had Refuted The 'proofs Of The Existence Of God' Put Forward, There Always Remained The Doubt Whether Better Proofs Might Not Be Adduced Than Those Just Refuted: In Those Days Atheists Did Not Know How To Make A Clean Sweep.

Do Not Talk About Giftedness, Inborn Talents! One Can Assume Great Men Of All Kinds Who Were Very Little Gifted. They Acquired Greatness, Became “geniuses” (as We Put It), Through Qualities The Lack Of Which No One Who Knew What They Were Would Boast Of: They All Possessed That Seriousness Of The Efficient Workman Which First Learns To Construct The Parts Properly Before It Ventures To Fashion A Great Whole; They Allowed Themselves Time For It, Because They Took More Pleasure In Making The Little, Secondary Things Well Than In The Effect Of A Dazzling Whole.

Objection, Evasion, Joyous Distrust, And Love Of Irony Are Signs Of Health; Everything Absolute Belongs To Pathology.

Indeed, What Forces Us At All To Suppose That There Is An Essential Opposition Of 'true' And 'false'? Is It Not Sufficient To Assume Degrees Of Apparentness And, As It Were, Lighter And Darker Shadows And Shades Of Appearance- Different 'values', To Use The Language Of Painters?

Convictions Are More Dangerous Enemies Of Truth Than Lies.courageous, Untroubled, Mocking And Violent-that Is What Wisdom Wants Us To Be. Wisdom Is A Woman, And Loves Only A Warrior.

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The Strongest Have Their Moments Of Fatigue.

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When Our Brain Feels Too Weak To Deal With Our Opponent's Objections, Our Heart Answers By Casting Suspicion On Their Underlying Motives.

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Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

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There Are Men Who Desire Power Simply For The Sake Of The Happiness It Will Bring; These Belong Chiefly To Political Parties.

Moralities And Religions Are The Principal Means By Which One Can Make Whatever One Wishes Out Of Man, Provided One Possesses A Superfluity Of Creative Forces And Can Assert One's Will Over Long Periods Of Time In The Form Of Legislation And Customs.

Man Makes God In His Own Image.

Linguistic Danger To Spiritual Freedom.- Every Word Is A Prejudice.

One Must First Be Firmly Set In Oneself, One Must Stand Securely On One's Own Two Legs Otherwise One Cannot Love At All.

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The People We Have Employed In An Undertaking That Has Turned Out Badly Should Be Doubly Rewarded.

If There Is Something To Pardon In Everything, There Is Also Something To Condemn.

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The Body Is A Big Sagacity, A Plurality With One Sense, A War And A Peace, A Flock And A Shepherd.

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Marriage Was Contrived For Ordinary People, For People Who Are Capable Of Neither Great Love Nor Great Friendship, Which Is To Say, For Most People--but Also For Those Exceptionally Rare Ones Who Are Capable Of Love As Well As Of Friendship.

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Behind A Remarkable Scholar We Not Infrequently Find An Average Human Being, And Behind An Average Artist We Often Find A Very Remarkable Human Being.

The Unselective Knowledge Drive Resembles The Indiscriminate Sexual Drive--signs Of Vulgarity!

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I Cannot Believe In A God Who Wants To Be Praised All The Time.

"body Am I, And Soul" - So Saith The Child. And Why Should One Not Speak Like Children?

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Give Me Today, For Once, The Worst Throw Of Your Dice, Destiny. Today I Transmute Everything Into Gold.

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Ultimately, No One Can Extract From Things, Books Included, More Than He Already Knows.

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Science Rushes Headlong, Without Selectivity, Without "taste," At Whatever Is Knowable, In The Blind Desire To Know All At Any Cost.

Unconsciously We Seek The Principles And Opinions Which Are Suited To Our Temperament, So That At Last It Seems As If These Principles And Opinions Had Formed Our Character And Given It Support And Stability.

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A Pair Of Powerful Spectacles Has Sometimes Sufficed To Cure A Person In Love.

Many Brief Follies--that Is What You Call Love. And Your Marriage Puts An End To Many Brief Follies, With A Single Long Stupidity.

Carlyle, A Man Of Strong Words And Attitudes, A Rhetorician Out Of Necessity, Constantly Aroused By The Craving For A Strong Faithas Well As By The Feeling Of An Incapacity For It (min This Respect A Typical Romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle Is An English Atheist Who Makes It A Point Of Honor Not To Be One.

If Virtue Goes To Sleep, It Will Be More Vigorous When It Awakes.

What, If Some Day Or Night A Demon Were To Steal After You Into Your Loneliest Loneliness And Say To You: 'this Life As You Now Live It And Have Lived It, You Will Have To Live Once More And Innumerable Times More' ... Would You Not Throw Yourself Down And Gnash Your Teeth And Curse The Demon Who Spoke Thus? Or Have You Once Experienced A Tremendous Moment When You Would Have Answered Him: 'you Are A God And Never Have I Heard Anything More Divine.

These Four, However, Seek The Freedom Of Their Will At The Very Point Where They Are Most Securely Chained. It Is As If The Silkworm Sought Freedom Of Will In Spinning. What Is The Reason?

Love Is Blind; Friendship Closes Its Eyes.

Shared Joys Make A Friend, Not Shared Sufferings.

The Danger In Happiness - "now Everything Is Turning Out Right For Me; From Now On I'll Love Every Turn Of Fate - Who Wants To Be My Fate?

The Usual False Conclusions Of Mankind Are These: A Thing Exists, Therefore It Has A Right To Exist.

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.

To Learn From Our Enemies Is The Best Pathway To Loving Them: For It Makes Us Grateful To Them.

When A Woman Has Scholarly Inclinations There Is Usually Something Wrong With Her Sexuality.

What Is The Task Of Higher Education? To Make A Man Into A Machine. What Are The Means Employed? He Is Taught How To Suffer Being Bored.

A Physician Who Treated Me As A Nervous Case For A While Said In The End "no! It Is Not A Matter Of Your Nerves; It Is I Who Am Nervous".

God Is A Gross Answer, An Indelicacy Against Us Thinkers- At Bottom Merely A Gross Prohibition For Us: You Shall Not Think!

. . . An Absurd Problem Came To The Surface: 'how Could God Permit That (crucifixion Of Jesus Christ)!' . . . The Deranged Reason Of The Little Community Found Quite A Frightfully Absurd Answer: God Gave His Son For Forgiveness, As A Sacrifice . . . The Sacrifice For Guilt, And Just In Its Most Repugnant And Barbarous Form - The Sacrifice Of The Innocent For The Sins Of The Guilty! What Horrifying Heathenism!

Not He Is Great Who Can Alter Matter, But He Who Can Alter My State Of Mind.

In Solitude The Lonely Man Is Eaten Up By Himself, Among Crowds By The Many.

Profundity Of Thought Belongs To Youth, Clarity Of Thought To Old Age.

You Implanted Your Highest Goal Into The Heart Of Those Passions: Then They Became Your Virtues And Joys.

If You Want Me To Believe In Your Redeemer, You Are Going To Have To Look A Lot More Redeemed.

Is Man One Of God's Blunders? Or Is God One Of Man's Blunders?

One May Sometimes Tell A Lie, But The Grimace That Accompanies It Tells The Truth.

The Better The State Is Established, The Fainter Is Humanity. To Make The Individual Uncomfortable, That Is My Task.

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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It Is, Indeed, A Fact That, In The Midst Of Society And Sociability Every Evil Inclination Has To Place Itself Under Such Great Restraint, Don So Many Masks, Lay Itself So Often On The Procrustean Bed Of Virtue, That One Could Well Speak Of A Martyrdom Of The Evil Man. In Solitude All This Falls Away. He Who Is Evil Is At His Most Evil In Solitude: Which Is Where He Is At His Best - And Thus To The Eye Of Him Who Sees Everywhere Only A Spectacle Also At His Most Beautiful.

Are You One Who Looks On? Or Lends A Hand? - Or Who Looks Away, Sidles Off?...third Question For The Conscience.

The Governments Of The Great States Have Two Instruments For Keeping The People Dependent, In Fear And Obedience: A Coarser, The Army; And A More Refined, The School.

One Is Necessary, One Is A Piece Of Fate, One Belongs To The Whole, One Is The Whole - There Exists Nothing Which Could Judge, Measure, Compare, Condemn Our Being, For That Would Be To Judge, Measure, Compare, Condemn The Whole...but Nothing Exists Apart From The Whole!

The Greeks, With Their Truly Healthy Culture, Have Once And For All Justified Philosophy Simply By Having Engaged In It, And Having Engaged In It More Fully Than Any Other People.

Insects Sting, Not From Malice, But Because They Want To Live. It Is The Same With Critics; They Desire Our Blood Not Our Pain.

I Am One Thing, My Writings Are Another.

Those Things For Which We Find Words, Are Things We Have Already Overcome.

One Should Not Understand This Compulsion To Construct Concepts, Species, Forms, Purposes, Laws ('a World Of Identical Cases') As If They Enabled Us To Fix The Real World; But As A Compulsion To Arrange A World For Ourselves In Which Our Existence Is Made Possible:-we Thereby Create A World Which Is Calculable, Simplified, Comprehensible, Etc., For Us.

Sometimes It Just Takes Stronger Eyeglasses To Cure Those Who Are In Love--and Someone With The Ability To Imagine A Face Or A Figure Twenty Years Older Might Perhaps Pass Through Life Quite Undisturbed.

When One Has Not Had A Good Father, One Must Create One.

The Same Relation Exists Between Merchant And Pirate, Who For A Long Period Are One And The Same Person: Where The One Function Appears To Them Inadvisable, They Exercise The Other.

The Patient. The Pine Tree Seems To Listen, The Fir Tree To Wait: And Both Without Impatience: - They Give No Thought To The Little People Beneath Them Devoured By Their Impatience And Their Curiosity.

I Condemn Christianity; I Bring Against The Christian Church The Most Terrible Of All Accusations That An Accuser Has Ever Had In His Mouth. It Is, To Me, The Greatest Of All Imaginable Corruptions; It Seeks To Work The Ultimate Corruption, The Worse Possible Corruption. The Christian Church Has Left Nothing Untouched By Its Depravity; It Has Turned Every Value Into Worthlessness, And Every Truth Into A Lie, And Every Integrity Into Baseness Of Soul.

So Long As Men Praise You, You Can Only Be Sure That You Are Not Yet On Your Own True Path But On Someone Else's.

Immature Is The Love Of The Youth, And Immature His Hatred Of Man And Earth. His Mind And The Wings Of His Spirit Are Still Tied Down And Heavy.

Woman Learns How To Hate In Proportion As She Forgets How To Charm.

Those Moralists, On The Other Hand, Who, Following In The Footsteps Of Socrates, Offer The Individual A Morality Of Self-control And Temperance As A Means To His Own Advantage, As His Personal Key To Happiness, Are The Exceptions.

Nothing Is Beautiful, Only Man: On This Piece Of Naivete Rests All Aesthetics, It Is The First Truth Of Aesthetics. Let Us Immediately Add Its Second: Nothing Is Ugly But Degenerate Man - The Domain Of Aesthetic Judgment Is Therewith Defined.

Our Faith In Others Betrays That We Would Rather Have Faith In Ourselves. Our Longing For A Friend Is Our Betrayer. And Often With Our Love We Want Merely To Overcome Envy. And Often We Attack And Make Ourselves Enemies, To Conceal That We Are Vulnerable.

For Both Parties In A Controversy, The Most Disagreeable Way Of Retaliating Is To Be Vexed And Silent; For The Aggressor Usually Regards The Silence As A Sign Of Contempt.

Every Step Forward Is Made At The Cost Of Mental And Physical Pain To Someone.

The Complete Irresponsibility Of Man For His Actions And His Nature Is The Bitterest Drop Which He Who Understands Must Swallow.

Words Of Wisdom

What Is Originality? To See Something That Is As Yet Without A Name, That Is As Yet Impossible To Designate, Even Though It Staresus In The Face. The Way It Usually Is With People, It Is A Thing's Name That Makes It Perceptible To Them In The First Place.--for The Most Part, The Original Ones Have Also Been The Name-givers.

What? You Seek Something? You Wish To Multiply Yourself Tenfold, A Hundredfold? You Seek Followers? Seek Zeros!

Many Are Stubborn In Pursuit Of The Path They Have Chosen, Few In Pursuit Of The Goal.

The Most Unendurable Thing, To Be Sure, The Really Terrible Thing, Would Be A Life Without Habits, A Life Which Continually Required Improvisation.

The One Conclusive Argument That Has At All Times Discouraged People From Drinking A Poison Is Not That It Kills But Rather That It Tastes Bad.

From People Who Merely Pray We Must Become People Who Bless.

Every God-man Created His Own God: And There Is No Worse Enmity On Earth Than That Between Gods.

A Few Hours' Mountain Climbing Make Of A Rogue And A Saint Two Fairly Equal Creatures. Tiredness Is The Shortest Path To Equality And Fraternity - And Sleep Finally Adds To Them Liberty.

And Once You Are Awake, You Shall Remain Awake Eternally.

Early In The Morning, At Break Of Day, In All The Freshness And Dawn Of One's Strength, To Read A Book -i Call That Vicious!

A Woman's Pity, Which Is Talkative, Carries The Sick Person's Bed To The Public Marketplace.

Everything Goes, Everything Comes Back; Eternally Rolls The Wheel Of Being. Everything Dies, Everything Blossoms Again; Eternally Runs The Year Of Being. Everything Breaks, Everything Is Joined Anew; Eternally The Same House Of Being Is Built. Everything Parts, Everything Greets Every Other Thing Again; Eternally The Ring Of Being Remains Faithful To Itself. In Every Now, Being Begins; Round Every Here Rolls The Sphere There. The Center Is Everywhere. Bent Is The Path Of Eternity.

Convictions Are Prisons.

Inaction, Letting Be, Neither Creating Nor Destroying--that Is My Evil. And Also The Knower As One Without Desire.

That Roguish And Cheerful Vice, Politeness.

Whoever Thought That He Had Understood Something Of Me Had Merely Construed Something Out Of Me, After His Own Image.

Tragedy Is Dead! Poetry Itself Died With It! Away, Away With You, Puny, Stunted Imitators! Away With You To Hades, And Eat Your Fill Of The Old Masters' Crumbs!

The Secret Of Realizing The Greatest Fruitfulness And The Greatest Enjoyment Of Existence Is: To Live Dangerously! Build Your Cities On The Slopes Of Vesuvius! Send Your Ships Out Into Uncharted Seas! Live In Conflict With Your Equals And With Yourselves! Be Robbers And Ravagers As Soon As You Ca Not Be Rulers And Owners, You Men Of Knowledge! The Time Will Soon Past When You Could Be Content To Live Concealed Int He Woods Like Timid Deer!

It Is Not Things, But Opinions About Things That Have Absolutely No Existence, Which Have So Deranged Mankind!

Woman Was God's Second Mistake.

Deception, Flattering, Lying, Deluding, Talking Behind The Back, Putting Up A False Front, Living In Borrowed Splendor, Wearing A Mask, Hiding Behind Convention, Playing A Role For Others And For Oneself -- In Short, A Continuous Fluttering Around The Solitary Flame Of Vanity -- Is So Much The Rule And The Law Among Men That There Is Almost Nothing Which Is Less Comprehensible Than How An Honest And Pure Drive For Truth Could Have Arisen Among Them.

Those That Achieve Anything That Looks Beyond The Vision And Thinking Of Their Peers Provoke Jealousy And Hatred Disguised As The Ordinary.

He Who Despises Himself Esteems Himself As A Self-despiser.

How Difficult It Is To Live When One Feels That The Judgment Of Many Millenniums Is Around One And Against One.

When The Gratitude That Many Owe To One Discards All Modesty, Then There Is Fame.

These Small Things - Nutrition, Place, Climate, Recreation, The Whole Casuistry Of Selfishness - Are Inconceivably More Important Than Everything One Has Taken To Be Important So Far.

The Most Dangerous Follower Is The One Whose Defection Would Destroy The Whole Party: Hence, The Best Follower.

I Am Almost Equal To A Shadow.

Full Is The Earth Of The Superfluous; Marred Is Life By The Many-too-many. May They Be Decoyed Out Of This Life By The "life Eternal"!

A Nation That Still Believes In Itself Holds Fast To Its Own God.

And I Offer You This Parable: Not A Few Who Sought To Cast Out Their Devil Entered Into The Swine Themselves.

He Who Has Always Spared Himself Much Will In The End Become Sickly Of So Much Consideration. Praised Be What Hardens!

Parasitism Is The Only Practice Of The Church; With Its Ideal Of Anaemia, Its Holiness, Draining All Blood, All Love, All Hope For Life; The Beyond As The Will To Negate Every Reality; The Cross As The Mark Of Recognition For The Most Subterranean Conspiracy That Ever Existed-against Health, Beauty, Whatever Has Turned Out Well, Courage, Spirit, Graciousness Of The Soul, Against Life Itself.

We No Longer Love Our Knowledge Enough Once We Have Passed It On.

When I Seek Another Word For 'music', I Never Find Any Other Word Than 'venice'

But This People Has Deliberately Made Itself Stupid, For Nearly A Millennium: Nowhere Have The Two Great European Narcotics, Alcohol And Christianity, Been Abused More Dissolutely.

Man Wishes Woman To Be Peaceable, But In Fact She Is Essentially Warlike, Like The Cat.

All That Philosophers Have Handled For Millennia Has Been Conceptual Mummies; Nothing Actual Has Ever Escaped From Their Hands Alive.

There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations.

The Child Is Innocence And Forgetting, A New Beginning, A Game, A Wheel Rolling On Its Own, A Prime Movement, A Sacred Yes.

Ye Are Ugly? Well Then, My Brethren, Take The Sublime About You, The Mantle Of The Ugly!

As Though "the Truth" Were Such An Innocent And Incompetent Creature As To Require Protectors!

Different Types Of Dangerous Lives-you Have No Idea What You Are Living Through; You Rush Through Life As If You Were Drunk And Now And Then Fall Down Some Staircase. But Thanks To Your Drunkenness You Never Break A Limb; Your Muscles Are Too Relaxed And Your Brain Too Benighted For You To Find The Stones Of These Stairs As Hard As We Do.

Although The Most Acute Judges Of The Witches And Even The Witches Themselves, Were Convinced Of The Guilt Of Witchery, The Guilt Nevertheless Was Non-existent. It Is Thus With All Guilt.

Not Their Love Of Humanity, But The Impotence Of Their Love, Prevents The Christians Of Today - Burning Us.

You Say 'i' And You Are Proud Of This Word. But Greater Than This- Although You Will Not Believe In It - Is Your Body And Its Great Intelligence, Which Does Not Say 'i' But Performs 'i'.

Men Were Considered "free" Only So That They Might Be Considered Guilty - Could Be Judged And Punished: Consequently, Every Act Had To Be Considered As Willed, And The Origin Of Every Act Had To Be Considered As Lying Within The Consciousness (and Thus The Most Fundamental Psychological Deception Was Made The Principle Of Psychology Itself).

The Existence Of Forgetting Has Never Been Proved: We Only Know That Some Things Don't Come To Mind When We Want Them.

A Man Unconsciously Imagines That Where He Is Strong, Where He Feels Most Thoroughly Alive, The Element Of His Freedom Must Lie.

The Future Influences The Present Just As Much As The Past.

All Preachers Of Morality, As Also All Theologians Have A Bad Habit In Common: All Of Them Try To Persuade Man That He Is Very Ill, And That A Severe, Final, Radical Cure Is Necessary.

It Is Perhaps Just Dawning On Five Or Six Minds That Physics, Too, Is Only An Interpretation And Exegesis Of The World (to Suit Us, If I May Say So!) And Not A World-explanation.

Every Deep Thinker Is More Afraid Of Being Understood Than Of Being Misunderstood.

Being Misunderstood

It Is However A Disgrace To Pray! Not For All, But For You, And Me, And Whoever Has His A Conscience.

When A Man Is Ill His Very Goodness Is Sickly.

One Lives For The Day, One Lives Very Fast, One Lives Very Irresponsibly: Precisely This Is Called "freedom."

Live For The Day

I Am Not A Human Being, I Am Dynamite.

Happiness: Being Able To Forget Or, To Express In A More Learned Fashion.

The Author Must Keep His Mouth Shut When His Work Starts To Speak.

There Did He Sit Shrivelled In His Chimney Corner, Fretting On Account Of His Weak Legs, World Weary, Will Weary, And One Day He Suffocated Through His Excessive Pity.

Every Man In Creating The Beautiful Appearance Of The Dream Worlds Is A Perfect Artist.

Many A Man Fails As An Original Thinker Simply Because His Memory It Too Good.

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