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“It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.”

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Christian Morgenstern

“To me, the term ‘middle-class’ connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is ‘middle-class’ in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.”

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“For, he reasons pointedly
That which must not, can not be.”

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Weil, so schließt er messerscharf
Nicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.
„Die unmögliche Tatsache” “The Impossible Fact” (1910)

“None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.”

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cited in Zarathustra’s Children (2000), p. 178

“Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.”

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“For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.”

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“If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.”

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“Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.”

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“If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.”

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