The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretati...
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Love, too, has to be learned.
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Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new ...
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived...
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Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. O...
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of riche...
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not rema...
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Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
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Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.
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I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reaw...
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One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life i...
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Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the e...
