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“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
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“Who is this person that you call "All"?—It is "society"!—But is it corporeal, then?—We are its body!—You? Why, you are not a body yourselves;—you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the "nation" of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a "spirit," its body only semblance.”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“I write because I wish to make for ideas, which are my ideas, a place in the world. If I could foresee that these ideas must take from you peace of mind and repose, if in these ideas that I sow I should see the germs of bloody wars and even the cause of the ruins of many generations, I would nevertheless continue to spread them. It is neither for the love of you nor even for the love of truth that I express what I think. No—I sing! I sing because I am a singer. If I use you in this way, it is because I have need of your ears.”
― The Ego and Its Own
― The Ego and Its Own
“You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Spiritual people have something they've planted in their head that is supposed to be realized. They have concepts oflove, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see actualized; therefore they want to build a kingdom oflove on earth, in which no one any longer acts from self-interest, but everyone acts "from love." Love is supposed to rule. What they've planted in their head, what is one supposed to call it other than-afixed idea? Indeed, it "haunts their heads." The most oppressive phantasm is the human being. Just think of the proverb, "The road to ruin is paved with good intentions." The intention to completely actualize humanity in oneself, to completely become human, is of such a ruinous sort; such are the intentions to become good, noble, loving, etc.”
― The Unique and Its Property
― The Unique and Its Property
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