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We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

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There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-inv...more

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Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

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Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the e...more

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Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phanto...more

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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

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We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparen...more

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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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He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.

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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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I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things…My nature is designed entirely for brief habits…I always be...more

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Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpose of existence: It now has one additional need—th...more

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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is pr...more

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.