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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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

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I am one thing, my writings are another.

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What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and ...more

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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I a...more

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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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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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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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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in who...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