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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of bei...more

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To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile ...more

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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then ...more

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The final reward of the dead - to die no more

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth....more

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Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other ...more

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.