How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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He divines remedies against injuries he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away
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