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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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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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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mi...more

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To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering ...more

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We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, d...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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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to ima...more

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

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It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head ...more

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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find...more

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There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eye...more

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This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born post...more