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“All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.”
― Steppenwolf
― Steppenwolf
“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;”
― The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
― The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
“Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is just simply a martyr whom the stake cannot kill.”
― Lost Illusions
― Lost Illusions
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
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