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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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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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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neit...more

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No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. T...more

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...more

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Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One...more

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented ...more

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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.