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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your roo...more

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If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity....more

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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of sk...more

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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, conde...more

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Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neit...more

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No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. T...more

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One...more

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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.