The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
God is a thought that makes crooked all that is straight.
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
One does not kill by anger but by laughter.
We want to be poets of our life, first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows — not even God.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.