Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he … - Friedrich Nietzsche

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I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

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