Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Discontent is the seed of ethics

Discontent is the seed of ethics

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should...

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should...

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to...

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality

The lie is a condition of life.

The lie is a condition of life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon...

The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon...

Without music life would be a mistake.

Without music life would be a mistake.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also...

The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also...

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is...

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is...

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable...

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable...

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil...

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...