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“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.”
― Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
― Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
― Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
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