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One very great value of antiquity consists in the fact that its writings are the only ones which modern men still read carefully.
Overstraining of the memory—very common among philologists, together with a poor development of the judgment.
18
Busying ourselves with the culture-epochs of the past: is this gratitude? We should look backwards in order to explain to ourselves the present conditions of culture: we do not become too laudatory in regard to our own circumstances, but perhaps we should do so in order that we may not be too severe on ourselves.
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He who has no sense for the symbolical has none for antiquity: let pedantic philologists bear this in mind.
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My aim is to bring about a state of complete enmity between our present "culture" and antiquity. Whoever wishes to serve the former must hate the latter.