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"As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."
"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."
"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."
"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"
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