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My doubt is terrible. — Nothing can stop me — it is a hunger of damnation — I can devour every argument, every consolation,

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 My doubt is terrible. — Nothing can stop me — it is a hunger of damnation — I can devour every argument, every consolation,

Jan 14,2024

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I always reason from existence, not toward existence, whether I move in the sphere of palpable sensible fact or in the realm

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 I always reason from existence, not toward existence, whether I move in the sphere of palpable sensible fact or in the realm

Dec 10,2023

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There’s a difference as big as that between heaven and hell between the proud courage that dares to fear all and the

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 There’s a difference as big as that between heaven and hell between the proud courage that dares to fear all and the

Dec 02,2023

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What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs

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 What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs

Mar 04,2023

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Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony.

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 Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony.

Feb 14,2023

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In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

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 In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

Jan 23,2023

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There is only one proof of spirit and that is the spirit’s proof within oneself. Whoever demands something else may get

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 There is only one proof of spirit and that is the spirit’s proof within oneself. Whoever demands something else may get

Jan 09,2023

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Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.

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 Contingent truths of history can never become the demonstrations of necessary truths of reason.

Dec 04,2022

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The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

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 The truth is introduced – and with that it enters into the process of history. But unfortunately this does not (as so

Apr 23,2022

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The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but

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 The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but

Feb 21,2022

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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

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 What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Jan 30,2022

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Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation,

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 Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation,

Jan 05,2022

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The measure of a person’s disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the

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 The measure of a person’s disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the

Jan 04,2022

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Next to taking off all my clothes, owning nothing in the world, not the least thing, and then throwing myself in the water,

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 Next to taking off all my clothes, owning nothing in the world, not the least thing, and then throwing myself in the water,

Dec 21,2021

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Faith is the most important factor in religious questions. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe,

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 Faith is the most important factor in religious questions. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe,

Nov 27,2021

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There are men who have an extraordinary talent for transforming everything into a matter of business, whose whole life

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 There are men who have an extraordinary talent for transforming everything into a matter of business, whose whole life

Nov 16,2021

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Generally the need of solitude is a sign that there is spirit in a man after all, and it is a measure for what spirit there

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 Generally the need of solitude is a sign that there is spirit in a man after all, and it is a measure for what spirit there

Sep 01,2021

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An unconscious relationship is more powerful than a conscious one.

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 An unconscious relationship is more powerful than a conscious one.

Aug 22,2021

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If we ask what poetry is, we may say in general that it is victory over the world; it is through a negation of the

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 If we ask what poetry is, we may say in general that it is victory over the world; it is through a negation of the

May 21,2021

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A man’s life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes

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 A man’s life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes

Apr 27,2021

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The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate

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 The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate

Feb 23,2021

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Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient; when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh,...

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 Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient; when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh,...

Feb 19,2021

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Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into

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 Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into

Jan 06,2021

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In the end, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays

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 In the end, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays

Dec 26,2020

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