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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit…
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By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it,…
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The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform…
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Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any…
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
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Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with…
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Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need…
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In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any…
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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and…
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The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress,…
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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.
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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
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