in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Culture is liberation, the removal of all the weeds, rubble and vermin that want to attack the tender buds of the plant.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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A man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
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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 reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature, is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
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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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