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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The real history of consciousness starts with one’s first lie.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.