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- There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and…
- It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error…
- Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
- Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning…
- A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .
- For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.
- The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
- That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the…
- The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality:…
- The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,…
- In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world…
- Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by…
- No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
- "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time…
- In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
- It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon…
- Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:…
- If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
- If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.
- With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is…
- I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact…
- The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves…
- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and…
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