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- We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse…
- Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
- Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and…
- Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
- Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
- Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
- The Antichrist, Section 7
- Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
- For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
- The Gay Science, section 108
- Christianity is called the religion of pity.
- I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
- Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
- Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide…
- After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
- In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
- The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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