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The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

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The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (...more

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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...more

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The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to ima...more

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Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know you! You want to win your argument against us, but ...more

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hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and ...more

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head ...more

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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find...more

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There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eye...more

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Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions ...more

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It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We p...more