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"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
Faith

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
Religion

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."

"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

"Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."

"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

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