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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish…

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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls…

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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with…

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“Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! [N.B.…

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“The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the…

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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of…

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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 truth,…

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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by…

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states…

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The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,…

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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the…

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If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves…

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“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of…

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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange…

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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire…

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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

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“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for…

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“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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