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If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.
Freedom requires guns.
Prose talks and poetry sings.
Love! Hate! Is there no third?
The real genres: good and bad.
A love that dies has never lived.
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
It is good insofar as it is not evil.
German diligence is actually endurance.
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
History is the zoology of the human race.
Servants honor their master by their service.
I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.
Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.
Transcendence: that which transcends experience.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.
The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.
Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.
The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.
Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.
Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.
The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.
The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.
