MAN ALONE BY HIMSELF.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Levy, Oscar, and Zimmern, Helen
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Envy and Jealousy.—Envy and jealousy are the pudenda of the human soul. The comparison may perhaps be carried further.
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The Noblest Hypocrite.—It is a very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self at all.
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Vexation.—Vexation is a physical disease, which is not by any means cured when its cause is subsequently removed.
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The Champions of Truth.—Truth does not find fewest champions when it is dangerous to speak it, but when it is dull.
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More Troublesome Even Than Enemies.—Persons of whose sympathetic attitude we are not, in all circumstances, convinced, while for some reason or other (gratitude, for instance) we are obliged to maintain the appearance of unqualified sympathy with them, trouble our imagination far more than our enemies do.
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Free Nature.—We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.
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Each Superior in One Thing.—In civilised intercourse every one feels himself superior to all others in at least one thing; kindly feelings generally are based thereon, inasmuch as every one can, in certain circumstances, render help, and is therefore entitled to accept help without shame.
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Consolatory Arguments.—In the case of a death we mostly use consolatory arguments not so much to alleviate the grief as to make excuses for feeling so easily consoled.
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Persons Loyal to Their Convictions.—Whoever is very busy retains his general views and opinions almost unchanged. So also does every one who labours in the service of an idea; he will nevermore examine the idea itself, he no longer has any time to do so; indeed, it is against his interests to consider it as still admitting of discussion.
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Morality and Quantity.—The higher morality of one man as compared with that of another, often lies merely in the fact that his aims are quantitively greater. The other, living in a circumscribed sphere, is dragged down by petty occupations.
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"The Life" As the Proceeds of Life.—A man may stretch himself out ever so far with his knowledge; he may seem to himself ever so objective, but eventually he realises nothing therefrom but his own biography.
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Iron Necessity.—Iron necessity is a thing which has been found, in the course of history, to be neither iron nor necessary.
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From Experience.—The unreasonableness of a thing is no argument against its existence, but rather a condition thereof.
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Truth.—Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths, there are too many antidotes to them.
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A Fundamental Insight.—There is no pre-established harmony between the promotion of truth and the welfare of mankind.
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Man's Lot.—He who thinks most deeply knows that he is always in the wrong, however he may act and decide.
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Truth As Circe.—Error has made animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of making man into an animal again?
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The Danger of Our Culture.—We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.
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Greatness Means Leading the Way.—No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatnesses. It is only a question of some one indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluents; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.
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A Feeble Conscience.—People who talk about their importance to mankind have a feeble conscience for common bourgeois rectitude, keeping of contracts, promises, etc.