possess 

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
JPS

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abyss 

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FWN

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fear 

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you free.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
SG[B]

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mind 

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.
AR

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spirit 

To be bourgeois is to be without spirit, yet being without spirit is also a kind of despair. Being bourgeois lacks every determination of spirit and calculates probabilities, in which field it finds its narrow expression; so it lacks possibility of experiencing God. Since the bourgeois is always without fantasy, he must live within the boring and narrow limits of his experience, as how things happen, what is possible, what usually happens; the bourgeois in this case can be as well a beer man as a prime minister. Thus the bourgeois has lost himself being without himself and without God...
SK

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purpose 

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
AR

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freedom 

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you
JPS

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either or 

If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.
SK

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oneself 

Oneself, indeed, is one's saviour, for what other saviour would there be? With oneself well controlled one obtains a saviour difficult to find.
SG[B]

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basic 

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.[-]
It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
FWN

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prefigur 

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God
JPS

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wish 

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
S.K.

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