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"Moderation sees itself as beautiful, it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
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"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"
"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"
"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
"The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception."
"A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."
"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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