| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Books | Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.
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| Christianity | The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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| Christians | The last Christian died on the cross.
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| Convictions | Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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| Cruelty | Man is the cruelest animal.
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| Distrust | Joyous Distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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| Faith | A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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| Germans | Everything that is ponderous, Vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety amoung Germans.
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| God | i cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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| God | Which is it; is man one of God's blunders, or is God on of man's blunders?
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| Heaven | In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
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| Hope | Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
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| Idealists | The idealist is incorrigible -- if he is turned out of his heavan, he makes an ideal of his hell
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| Insanity | Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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| Laughter | Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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| Love | Love is the state in which man sees thing most decidedly as they are not.
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| Love | What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
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| Man | The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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| Memory | The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoyes several times the same good things for the first time.
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| Misc. | At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
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| Music | Only sick music makes money today.
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| Opinions | It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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| Punishment | But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
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| Religion | There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.
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| Suffering | The thought of suicide is a great consuolation: with the help of it one has got throught many a bad night.
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| Suicide | The thought of sucide is a great consolation; by means of it one gets through many a bad night.
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| Talking | Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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| Wagner | Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touchs falls ill. He has made music sick.
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| War | How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
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