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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is a...more

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed...more

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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

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To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the d...more

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Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easie...more

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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolish...more

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When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eyes and beheld reality, at which I began to laugh, a...more

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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young a...more

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Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, ad...more

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwa...more

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The majority of men in every generation, even those who, as it is described, devote themselves to thinking, live and die under the impression that lif...more