The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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The day's length. If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies, but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in the world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Abuse)
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches, and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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Privilege of greatness. It is the privilege of greatness to grant supreme pleasure through trifling gifts.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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