

“Everything that can be denied, deserves to be denied; and real sincerity means the belief in a state of things which cannot be denied, or in which there is no lie. The sincere man feels that his activity has a metaphysical meaning. It can only be explained by the laws of a different and a higher life; it is in the deepest sense an affirmation: even if everything that he does seem utterly opposed to the laws of our present life.”
― Schopenhauer as Educator
― Schopenhauer as Educator

“Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable.”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary

“Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist!”
― On the Genealogy of Morals
― On the Genealogy of Morals
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