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- The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and…
- Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion…
- Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and…
- It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and…
- For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that…
- The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is…
- The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I…
- Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for…
- Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.
- I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one…
- What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of…
- An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage…
- There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance…
- Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a…
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