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" In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. "

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" The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass. "

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" The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. "

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" He who matures early lives in anticipation. "

" Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. "

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" Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. "

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Self-Discipline

" A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. "

" Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. "

" Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. "

" Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. "

" He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. "

" The whole is the false. "

" Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. "

" In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'. "

" Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. "

" Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. "

" An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. "

" If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. "