And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
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