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The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure
but now it draws me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of "duty"? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [ ... ] Without cruelty there is no festival. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In music the passions enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet
stand also on your heads! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Plato was a bore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word "virtue" out of their mouth! And when they say: "I am just," it always soundeth like: "I am just - revenged! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Solitude, the lonely man is eaten by himself.
Among crowds, by the Many.
Choose which you Prefer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which does not destroy, strengthens. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From the practice of wise men. - To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed. 301 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the morality of "thou shalt not lie" is rejected, the "sense for truth" will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal: - as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I no longer want to walk on worn soles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love forgives the lover even his lust. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the safest of all foundations - which we built on again and again although every previous structure fell in: I began to undermine our faith in morals . But ye do not understand me? - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them.
But who knows such love? who has experienced it?
Its true name is friendship -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right
especially when one is right. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly," then they need to search. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most? The man who breaks their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker:- yet he is the creator. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge" is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We can destroy only as creators -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love
To lose myself for a while ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people
but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse - and forget it immediately. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We think we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers, yet we possess only metaphors of the things, which in no way correspond to the original essences. Just -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Somebody said: About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Remorse.
Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not angry with anybody. But when I am alone it seems to me that I can see my friends in a clearer and rosier light than when I am with them; and when I loved and felt music best I lived far from it. It would seem that I must have distant perspectives in order that I may think well of things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest accomplishment of past mankind is that we
no longer have to live in continual fear of wild animals, of
barbarians, of gods and of our own dreams. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!
And he who laughs best today will also laugh last. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who hears only a "Will to Truth" in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And how does one basically recognize good development? In that a well-developed man does our senses good: that he is carved from wood which is hard, delicate, and sweet-smelling, all at the same time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We work only with things that don't exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, units of time, units of space - how is explanation even possible if we begin by making everything into an image, our image! It -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our age knows better ... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent - it is indecent to be a Christian today. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You utlilitarians, you too love everything useful only as avehicle of your inclinations - you too really find the noise of its wheels intolerable? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.
The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Antichrist, Section 7 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning
consequently it is being abolished. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. There -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Qualities.-Our strong points sometimes drive us so far forward that we cannot any longer endure our weaknesses, and we perish by them: we also perhaps see this result beforehand, but nevertheless do not want it to be otherwise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been
the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And now we celebrate, in victory bound,
The feast of feasts:
Friend Zarathustra came, the guest of guests!
Now laughs the world, the ancient curtain's torn,
And light and darkness wedded are as one ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies
and thus become silent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let your virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if you must speak of it, then do not be ashamed to stammer about it. Then speak and stammer: "This is my good, I love this, thus I like it entirely, thus alone do I want the good. I -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings
always darker, emptier and simpler. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not belong to those who only get their thoughts from books, or at the prompting of books,-it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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the mob is the most ruthless of tyrants; -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not their love for men, rather it is the impotence of their love that hinders Christians of today from burning us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, my friend, I sometimes think that I lead a highly dangerous life since I'm one of those machines that can burst apart. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But for all that, of course, he is the most interesting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will buckle and your courage gnash its teeth. One day you will cry, 'I am alone! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The earth', he said, 'has a skin; and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases is called, for example, "humanity". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even now it is ceasing to be art of the nobleman, and it is quite possible that some day one may find it so common and even vulgar that, along with all party literature and journalism, one would classify it as prostitution of the spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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thinker sees in his own actions attempts and questionings to obtain information about something or other; success and failure are answers to him first and foremost. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men - and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But there is no such substratum; there is no "being" behind doing, effecting, becoming; "the doer" is merely a fiction added to the deed-the deed is everything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is the great stimulus to life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so much so that it has been like living with my dear friends. If only you know how novel and strange that seems to an old hermit like me? How often it has made me laugh at myself! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart
and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate
they only reply, and purr in doing so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Remain true to the earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why?" said Zarathustra. "Thou askest why? I do not belong to those who may be asked after their Why. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life. The saint in whom God takes pleasure is the ideal castrate. Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If spouses did not live together, good marriages would be more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery hath hitherto saved the victims. "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When he was young, that God out of the Orient, then was he harsh and
revengeful, and built himself a hell for the delight of his favourites.
At last, however, he became old and soft and mellow and pitiful, more
like a grandfather than a father, but most like a tottering old grandmother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything
makes one gentle and pliable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What the father has hidden comes out in the son, and often have I found the son to be a father's revealed secret. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it
the only satisfactory theodicy! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In disrespecting, we show that we still mantain a sense of respect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose
and then to find
ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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(Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But I need solitude
which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Better know nothing than half-know many things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.
Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there are no exactly straight lines, no real circle, no absolute standard of size. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art raises its head where creeds relax. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman
a rope over an abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she does not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always attack and lightning and night, along with the light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God is a conjecture: but I do not wish your conjecturing to reach beyond your creating will. Could ye CREATE a God? - Then, I pray you, be silent about all Gods! But ye could well create the Superman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Way to equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity - and liberty is added eventually by sleep. 297 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no beast without cruelty -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To chew and digest everything, however - that is the
genuine swine-nature! Ever to say ye-a - that hath only
the ass learnt, and those like it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becomes loathsome to you, and so also your reason and virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who has a why can endure anyhow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride.
He who sees the abyss, but with eagle's eyes,- he who with eagle's talons grasps the abyss: he has courage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I should not believe in a God who does not dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however
how could I forgive that! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We sleepwalkers of the day! We artists! We who conceal naturalness! We who are moon- and God-struck! We untiring wanderers, silent as death, on heights that we see not as heights but as our plains, as our safety. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere - until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Populace above, populace below! What are "poor" and "rich" ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth ... I am no man, I am dynamite! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But let me reveal my heart to you entirely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Hence there are no gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The doer alone learneth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world itself is a filthy monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished
it is no longer secure in its instincts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lie of the ideal has till now been the curse on reality; on its account humanity itself has become fake and false right down to its deepest instincts - to the point of worshipping values opposite to the only ones which would guarantee it a flourishing, a future, the exaled right to a future. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is a dark chain of events. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The present-day Prussian is one of the most dangerous enemies of culture -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A married philosopher belongs to comedy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The true world
we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Almost two thousand years, and no new god! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only Individuals have a sense of Responsibility -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must now and then be joyful in our folly, that we may continue to be joyful in our wisdom! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Heroism
that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thou great star! what would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author
and that he did not learn it better. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying
that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the good war that hallows every cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power
assuming that life itself is the will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life
is the real sin against the holy spirit of life -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What matters is not eternal life, but eternal vivacity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sage as astronomer. - As long as you still feel the stars as something 'above you', you have not yet acquired the gaze of a man of deep understanding. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hunger attacks me," said Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among forests and swamps my hunger attacks me, and late in the night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole - the whole is no longer a whole. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking
humanity itself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa
blessing it rather than in love with it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One hears but one does not seek; one takes
one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One person is always too many around me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and that is what every sufferer is - is for them an enchanting thing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task ... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What, seen in the perspective of life, is the significance of morality? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerable many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind?
They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the "good man". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere
until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection ... Thus spoke Zarathustra. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye - little makes up the quality of the best happiness. Soft! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hybrid European - a tolerably ugly plebeian, taken all in all - absolutely requires a costume: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truths are bloody truths to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes;better to say No, but best of all to say nothing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Keep sacred your highest hope! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves
from "justifying" ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Enduring habits I hate ... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men
this and nothing else is its duty -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature
: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shackled heart, free spirit.
Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This crown of the laughter, the rosary crown: to you, my brothers, I throw this crown! I pronounced laughter holy: you higher men, learn - to laugh! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Humanity is still much more a means than an end. It is the type: the human
race is merely the test material, the vast excess of failure, a debris field. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am not much more than an animal which has been taught to dance by blows and a few scraps of food. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would only believe in a god who knew how to dance. And -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is no doubt possible to fly
but first you must know how to dance like an angel. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I could only believe in a God who could dance ... And now a God dances through me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer
to DANCE on the feet of chance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing ... his very gestures express enchantment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the distinctive charm that this sort of mixture of sublimity, sickness, and childishness has to offer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don't throw away the best of yourself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So LEARN to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, ye good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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the lie is a condition of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A married philosopher is a comic character. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus one finds much more happiness in the world than sad eyes see, if one only reckons rightly, and does not forget all those moments of comfort in which every day is rich, even in the most harried of human lives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In practice it is death that works so
seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off? ... Third question for the conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man who loves like a woman becomes thereby a slave ; a woman, however, who loves like a woman -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to perish through the present ones. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The inability to lie is far from the love of truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood today on a promontory - beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and weighed the world.
Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that which leads to irrationalism: to the affirmation of means whose end is denied. A road to nonentity is the desideratum, hence all emotional impulses are regarded with horror. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Excelsior! You will never again pray, never again repose in limitless trust - you deny it to yourself to remain halted before an ultimate wisdom, ultimate good, ultimate power, and there unharness your thoughts -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
And rather be angry than put to shame. And if you are cursed, I do not like that you want to bless. Rather join a little in the cursing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it
this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And again and again the human race will decree from time to time: "There is something at which it is absolutely forbidden henceforth to laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction; -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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State I call it where all drink poison, the good and the wicked; state, where all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; state, where the slow suicide of all is called life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind, - that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alas, I have begun my loneliest walk. But whoever is of my kind, cannot escape such an hour, the hour which says to him, 'Only now are you going your way to greatness. Peak and abyss, they are now joined together, for all things are baptized in a well of eternity, and lie beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Don't ask, How will I climb the mountain, just climb the mountain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even to my foe, and will not have become poorer thereby.
There is comradeship: may there be friendship! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: 'What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young - so have patience with it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When he judged himself, that was his supreme moment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many find their heart when they have lost their head. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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(The Germans invented gunpowder - all credit to them! but they again made things square - they invented printing.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed . -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I learned to walk; since then I have let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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there they laugh: they understand me not; I am not the mouth for these ears. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You're going to women? Don't forget your whip! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is very well defended against himself ... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The actual stronghold of a man is inaccessible, almost invisible, until friends and enemies turn traitor- and lead him there by a secret path -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But the worst enemy you can encounter will always be yourself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I teach the No to all that makes weak
that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is past the peak of his powers and is very weary, very close to the setting of his sun. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is one which ought to be studied -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The final reward of the dead - to die no more -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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CALM is the bottom of my sea: who would guess that it hides droll monsters!
Unmoved is my depth: but it sparkles with swimming enigmas and laughters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dearest - every person is a prison and also a recess. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I must have pity, then I do not want to be called such; and if I do have pity, then rather from a distance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Among austere men intimacy involves shame
and is something precious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will soon put in an appearance - you can be sure of that! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required
acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a 'miracle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning contributions of the weak -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin of your virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most books are born from the smoke and vapour of the brain: and to vapour and smoke may they well return. For having no fire within themselves, they shall be visited with fire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is it that you love in others?
My hopes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Precisely this is godliness
that there are gods, but no God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep
where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature
and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder
but not the ladder. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of power is the demon of mankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A. Was I ill? Have I got well?
Who was my doctor? Can you tell?
Oh, my memory is rotten!
B. Only now you're truly well.
Those are well who have forgotten. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sedentary life ... is the real sin against the holy spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Did I seek where the wind bites keenest, learn to live where no one lives, in the desert where only the polar bear lives, unlearn to pray and curse, unlearn man and god, become a ghost flitting across the glaciers? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness - as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne - and often the throne also sits on mud. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sicknesses, especially those affecting nerves and head, are signs that the defensive strength of the strong natures is lacking; precisely this is suggested by irritability, so pleasure and displeasure become foreground problems. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Live dangerously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The anthropological criminologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monstrous in appearance, monstrous in spirit]. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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... we whose task is wakefulness itself have inherited all the strength which has been cultivated by the struggle against this error. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion
religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But when Zarathustra was alone, he addressed his heart thus: "Can it really be possible? This old holy man in his forest still hasn't received any notice that God is dead! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes just a stronger pair of glasses will cure an amorous man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Formerly it was perceived in a person that on some occasion he wanted to think-it was perhaps the exception !-that he now wanted to become wiser and collected his mind on a thought: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I live in my own light, I drink back into myself the flames that break from me -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing
that is the final recourse of those who support punishment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I gave myself up to my thoughts - what else could I do! Of course, this was the very worst thing for my head, but I still do not see how I could have avoided it. This winter my programme will be to recover from myself, to rest myself away from my thoughts - for years I have not had this experience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am no man, I am dynamite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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only thoughts conceived while walking have any value -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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the waking day of a mythically vibrant people, the ancient Greeks, for instance, is in fact more akin to dream than to the day of a sober scientific thinker. If -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It would have been much more fortunate had the Persians become masters of the Greeks, rather than have the Romans of all people assume that role. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Gay Science, section 108 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I call dionysian -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings
honors, treasures, beautiful women
accessible even to cowards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My thoughts', said the wanderer to his shadow, 'should show me where I stand, but they should not betray to me where I am going. I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us - or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Already even politics ceases to be the business of a gentleman ; and it is possible that one day it may be found to be so vulgar as to be brought, like all party literature and daily literature, under the rubric : Prostitution of the intellect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality in Europe today is herd-morality -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Equality before the enemy - first precondition for an honest duel. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every state in which anyone other than the statesman has to concern himself with politics is ill organized and deserves to perish by all these politicians. Another -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the world even the best things are worthless without those who represent them: those representers, the people call great men. Little -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always gives, and desires not to keep for himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Certitude drives people mad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, looking around to see if anybody notices it - and to make sure that somebody does. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has a Why can endure any How. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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History belongs above all to the man ... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I demand from a book harmony as unity and moderation; that determines the choice of words, the type and number of metaphors, the development and conclusion -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, 'I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The workers of Europe ought to henceforth declare themselves as a class a human impossibility ... they ought to inaugurate within the European beehive an age of a great swarming-out such as has never been seen before -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hour when you say, What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One puts to one's lips what drives one faster into the abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights monster should beware, lest he become a monster himself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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By losing your goal, You have lost your way. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Always look on the bright side of the abyss -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You shall become the person you are. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal"). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should adopt only those situations in which is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand - or escape -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every series of evolutions, according to them, was presided over by a prophet; and every prophet had his 'Hazar,' - his dynasty of a thousand years." All -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is terrible to die of thirst on the sea. Does your truth have to be so salty that it can no longer even - quench thirst? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?
that the supreme values devaluate themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We only hear questions that we are able to answer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is the proper task of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is a flat circle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This book is intended for calm readers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus months and years passed by for the lonely one; but his wisdom grew and caused him pain with its fullness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence- -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The pure soul is a pure lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman wants to be taken and accepted as a possession, she wishes to be merged in the conceptions of " possession " and " possessed "; consequently she wants one who takes, who does not offer and give himself away, -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The frost of loneliness makes me shiver. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What does your conscience say? - 'You should become the person you are'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.
Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"
is a simpleton. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks
those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The creator seeks companions, not corpses- and not herds or believers either. The creator seeks fellow-creators - those who grave new values on new law-tablets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses - and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh - those who grave new values on new tables. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man has been highly honored and has eaten a little he is most benevolent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A journey is not complete until you reach a destination. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love
and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster ... when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture owes its peaks to politically weak ages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Idleness is the parent of psychology. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Any human being who does not wish to be part of the masses need only stop making things easy for himself. Let him follow his conscience, which calls out to him: Be yourself! All that you are now doing, thinking, desiring, all that is not you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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doing nothing is more expedient than doing something. - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is all in vain; the torture of the unfulfilled law cannot be overcome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.
And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience - a wandering will be therein, and a mountain-climbing: in the end one experienceth only oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A god come to earth ought to do nothing whatever but wrong: to take upon oneself, not the punishment, but the guilt - only that would be godlike. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Master-morality and Slave-morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Excitation of the instinct of appropriation at the sight of the weak: it is to be remembered, however, that " strong " and " weak " are relative conceptions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober
this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit
the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive
or even boring. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Creating - that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedoers are at disadvantage compared with freethinkers because people suffer more obviously from the consequences of deeds than from those of thoughts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed
it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God
the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All words are prejudices. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong": so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. The voice of the herd will still echo in thee. And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life ... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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24. O sancta simplicitas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for laws. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy
ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength - life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this - although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who obeys, does not listen to himself! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He is called a free spirit who thinks differently from what, on the basis of his origin, environment, his class and profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the age, would have been expected of him -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Die at the right time -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered
and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The last Christian died on a cross. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply ... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry.
They would have blood from you in all innocence; blood is what bloodless souls crave - and therefore they sting in all innocence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to
become evil! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most serious Christians have always been well disposed towards me. I myself, an opponent of Christianity - de rigueur, am far from bearing a grudge against the individual for what is the fatality of millennia. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is a journey so everyone is a tourist -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This - is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way - does not exist! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to imagine an opinion contrary to its own -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the "in vain," insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure- - being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long. - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Always at home. - One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook to reach it. In fact, we were not even aware of traveling. But we got so far because we fancied at every point that we were at home. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is difficult and painful for the ear to listen to anything new; we hear strange music badly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that it is liberated from all petty displeasure, gloom and depression as by a flash of lightening: what paths lead to this goal? And which of them do so most surely? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only human right. - He who deviates from the traditional falls victim to
the extraordinary; he who remains in the traditional becomes its slave. In
either event he perishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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again passed moons and years over Zarathustra's soul, and he heeded it not; his hair, however, became white. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image - an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator: - thus did the world once seem to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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She has the power to both possess and shatter my entire universe, that is all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to succeed in comprehending and feeling in himself the general consciousness of mankind, he would collapse with a curse on existence; for -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth ... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You will not get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Creation-that is the great redemption from suffering, and life's growing light. But that the creator may be, much suffering is needed and much change. Indeed, there must be much bitter dying in your life, you creators -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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These trumpeters of reality are bad musicians. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behind thy thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage - it is called Self; it dwelleth in thy body, it is thy body. There -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This workshop where ideals are manufactured
it seems to me it stinks of so many lies -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who create are hard of heart. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In war personal revenge maintains its silence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why," said the saint, "did I go into the forest and the desert? Was it not because I loved mankind far too well? Now I love God! Mankind I do not love; mankind is a thing too imperfect for me. Love of mankind would be fatal to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely - "il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien" - I wager he finds nothing! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave
us! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not doubt but certainty that drives you mad ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men
as well as his great moments of grand harmony
a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is punished best for one's virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even if it should happen to be a rhyme not suited for every one's ears. I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything matters. Nothing's important. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion
who can match women in this clever ploy? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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beauty's voice speaks gently: it appeals only to the most awakened souls. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One has to know the size of one's stomach. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Valuing is creating: hear it, you creators! Valuing itself is the treasure and jewel of all valued things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. " Why should I not be worsted for once ? " he says to himself, " I am now rich enough to stand it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.- -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?
In pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Injustice and filth they throw after the lonely one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must not shine less for them because of that. And beware of the good and the just! They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves - they hate the lonely one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands
or gets down. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is something to be surpassed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be sure, it takes a stronger gaze and a better will to further that which is evolving and imperfect, rather than to penetrate its imperfection and reject it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It goes to reason if you always on the reasons go. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging - backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down anymore? Do we not wander as if through an endless nothingness? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Hasn't it grown colder? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses. But beauty's voice speaketh gently: it appealeth only to the most awakened souls -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame - that is the history of man! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No artist tolerates reality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On every parable you ride to every truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth - yea, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning! A -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why should one live? All is vain! To live- that is to thresh straw; to live- that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm.- -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The creator wished to look away from himself,
thereupon he created the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness
they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I want, once and for all,
not to know many things.
Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge
as in other things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The body of knowledge keeps increasing at incredible speed, but the literature of nonknowledge grows even faster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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as though the Universe itself were under an obligation to bother itself about them, for it never gets tired of wrapping up God Himself in the petty misery in which its troubles are involved. And -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is the cruelest animal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves; in glorifying God they glorify themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Religion has debased the concept "man"; its ultimate consequence is that everything good, great, true is superhuman and bestowed only through an act of grace - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My genius is in my nostrils. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. - Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure - I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without rebellion with which a Russian soldier for whom the campaign has become too much at last lies down in the snow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only sick music makes money today. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I shall say another word for the most select ears: what I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm. I -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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the illusion of the artistic rendering of a nerve stimulus into images is, if not the mother, then at least the grandmother of every concept. In -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must need spirit toacquire spirit; one loses it when one no
longer needs it. Whoever has strength dispenses with the spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The dignity of folly
And just as tyranny of truth and science could increase esteem for the lie, a tyranny of prudence could spur the growth of a new kind of nobility. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whence come the highest mountains? I once asked. Then I learned that they came out of the sea. The evidence is written in their rocks and in the walls of their peaks. It is out of the deepest depth that the highest must come to its height. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are so fond of being out in Nature because it has no opinions of us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately you are even just an imitation play-actor ... Second question for the conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[The] self overcoming of justice: one knows the beautiful name it has given itself
mercy ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My soul is calm and bright as the morning mountains. But they believe I am cold, that I jeer, that I deal in terrible jests. And now they look at me and laugh, and in laughing they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To have and to want more that is life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All is alike, nothing is worth while, knowledge strangleth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wouldn't thinking have put over on us the biggest hoax yet? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What, then, would be the origin of tragedy? Perhaps joy, strength, overflowing health, overgreat fullness? And -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith is the path of least resistance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS, - that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses
generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time. So does it accord with good sleep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the end one only experiences oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp
since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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the degree of our honesty and justice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it wants your whole power, in wrath, hatred, and love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every word is a prejudice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beethoven's music is music about music. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Doesn't nature reach her goal even though most people falsely determine the purpose of their own efforts? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions
as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"
and we give it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much beer is in German intelligence? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At heart I am a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware of spitting against the wind! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Saying yes to life, even in its strangest and hardest problems. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All too violently my heart still flows toward you - my heart, upon which my summer burns, short, hot, melancholy, overblissful; how my summer heart craves your coolness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the
spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Altered is Zarathustra; a child hath Zarathustra become; an awakened one is Zarathustra: what wilt thou do in the land of the sleepers? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile
to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The future influences the present just as much as the past. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love as a passion - it is our European specialty - must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it even with the best right but without inner constraint proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring to the point of recklessness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man". And lately did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard, -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership. [408] -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was as if his apostasy from the faith of his fathers, filling him with the fiery zeal of the convert, and particularly of the convert to heresy, had blinded him to every other element in the gigantic self-delusion of civilized man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.
We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in "the beyond" - in nothingness - then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who maketh no secret of himself shocketh; so much reason have ye to fear nakedness! Aye, if ye were Gods, ye could then be ashamed of clothing! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!
He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the 'beyond'! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The feeling of rank is one of the most basic human instincts. To gossip about someone is to elevate yourself above him or her. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Worldly Wisdom
Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people - "base. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin
or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens
when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I found life easy, easiest, when it demanded the most difficult things of me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Corruption is just a rude word for the autumn of a people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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His wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality negates life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life without music is a mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's no defense against stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thinking evil is making evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Go your ways! and let the people and peoples go theirs!- gloomy ways, verily, on which not a single hope glints any more! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My loneliness is not
By the presence or absence of people;
On the contrary, I hate who steals my loneliness,
Without, in exchange, offer me a real company -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is called the religion of pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no facts, only interpretations. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or- -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What does not kill you makes you stronger. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nihilism is ... not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Free from what? What does Zarathustra care! But brightly your eyes should signal to me: free for what? Can -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alcoholic drinks do not agree with me. A single glass of wine or beer a day is amply sufficient to turn life into a valley of tears for me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have done that', says my memory. I cannot have done that - says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally - memory yields. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil. A -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which is ready to fall, shall ye also push! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread to make a show of representing the whole. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is good to express a matter in two ways simultaneously so as to give it both a right foot and a left. Truth can stand on one leg, to be sure; but with two it can walk and get about. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The labyrinthine man never seeks the truth but always and only his Ariadne. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold, I teach you the Overman! He is that lightning, he is that madness! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dreams carry us back to the earlier stages of human culture and afford us a means of understanding it more clearly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge
what does all this point to, if not to the loss of myth, the loss of the mythical home, the mythical maternal womb? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life
that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I attack only things that are triumphant - if necessary, I wait until they become triumphant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection: that is why I need music. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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An artist chooses his subjects.. that is the way he praises. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices
and to make sure that somebody notices. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our duties - are the rights of others over us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Provided they grasped my doctrine, the former would suffer too much, for my mode of thinking requires a martial soul, willingness to cause pain, delight in denying, and a hard skin,-he would succumb by open wounds and internal injuries. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas- -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who strays from tradition becomes a
sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its
slave. Destruction follows in any case. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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to have to combat one's instincts - that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year
ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge
and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then even his friends and acquaintances begin to grow anxious. The man of talent must pass through this fire, too; afterwards he is much more his own person. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom
it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without passions you have no experience whatever. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is language the adequate expression of all realities? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The night is also a sun. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I pray God to deliver me from God ! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life without music is no life at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another. I know you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men need play & danger. Civilization gives them work and safety. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes ... what? "world" perhaps? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say to me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fear is the mother of morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The earth, said he, hath a skin; and this skin hath diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are the axioms of logic adequate to reality or are they a means and measure for us to create reality, the concept "reality", for ourselves? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us
and so, what has kept it going up to now
lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. In -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human society: it is an attempt - so I teach - a long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler! - An attempt, my brethren! And NO "contract"! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I deny morality as I deny alchemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even your silence wants to choke me, you who are so abysmally silent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If one had the smallest vestige of superstition in one, it would hardly be possible to set aside completely the idea that one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece or medium of an almighty power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yes, it is worthwhile to live! yes, I am worthy to live!-life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesting to ourselves once more.-It is not to be denied that until now laughter and reason and nature have in the long run got the upper hand -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Atheism and a kind of _second innocence_ belong together. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I transform myself to fast: my today refutes my yesterday. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not a man, I am dynamite -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The free man is a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He enters a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers already inherent in the very act of living, not the least of which is the fact that no one with eyes will see how and where he gets lost and lonely and is torn limb from limb by some cave-Minotaur of conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Joys want the eternity of all things, they want deep, profound eternity! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[ ... ] let us go with all our "devils" to the help of our "god"! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything good is instinct
and, as a result, easy, necessary, free. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the antinomy: insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whom do you call Bad?-Him who always wants to put others to shame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything that is deep loves the mask -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A day when you haven't danced, you haven't lived. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They rule, not because they want to, but because they are; they are not at liberty to play second. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are prisons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our ancestors pay the price for who we are -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was not mine already? What returns, what finally comes home to me, is my own self and what of myself has long been in strange lands and scattered among all things and accidents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The one necessary thing. - A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I live in my own place. I never copied anybody, not even half. And at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself, I laugh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fallacy, Fallacy. - He cannot rule himself; therefore that woman concludes that it will be easy to rule him, and throws out her lines to catch him;-the poor creature, who in a short time will be his slave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said
and did not say. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong, over laden with energy. The man in this condition transforms things until they mirror his power - until they are reflections of his perfections -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sleep is no mean art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes
and calls it his pride. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You force all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the strongest cure?
Victory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many short follies - that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own? ... you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Battle not with monsters
lest you become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick - how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however - is truth produced! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be an error. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A life without music is an error. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be a mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile ... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: this is really you, this is no longer outer shell. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love of truth is something fearsome and mighty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it
right, my friends? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. We have killed him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Meanwhile, however, it is quite otherwise, meanwhile the comedy of existence has not yet " become conscious " of itself, meanwhile it is still the period of tragedy, the period of morals and religions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth
her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you still experience the stars as something "over you," you still don't have the eyes of a knower. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Had Nietzsche lived to be burned at the stake by outraged Mississippi Methodists, it would have been a glorious day for his doctrines. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To love those who despise us, and to give one's hand to the phantom who tries to frighten us? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many brief follies
that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite."
- Human, All Too Human, "Assorted Opinions and Maxims, -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier
their Christianity, for example. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength
life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am more than a battlefield than a man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world is full of beautiful things but nevertheless very poor in beautiful moments and the opening-up of these things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The noble soul reveres itself -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One physiological precondition is indispensible for there to be art: intoxication, or the feeling of fullness and increasing strenth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hour-hand of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I make for my goal, I follow my course; over the loitering and tardy will I leap. Thus let my on-going be their down-going! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached
and against which he taught his disciples to fight. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I fear you close by; I love you far away. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The melancholia of everything completed! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is punished most for one's virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty
for that, my brothers, the lion is needed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Preaching morals is as easy as giving reasons for morals is difficult -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your educators can only be your liberators. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But having quills is a waste, even a double luxury when one can choose not to have quills but open hands. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The worst things, however, are the petty thoughts. Verily, better to have done evilly than to have thought pettily! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best thing for you is to die soon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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...all that is rare is for the rare. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bite of conscience is indecent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is the hangman's metaphysics... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here is the great city: here have you nothing to seek and everything to lose. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Yes, life is a woman! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Respectability offends my taste. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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(how well Stoicism hides what one does not possess!); -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage: that is what I call the will by two for creating the one who is more than those who created it. Respect for one another I call marriage, and respect for the one who wills such a willing. Let -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many die too late, and some die too early. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All my human relationships have to do with a mask of me, and I must perpetually be the victim of living a completely hidden life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls his soul; if these inner movements are plainly difficult and an effort for him, he is considered soulless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I will teach men the meaning of their existence: the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud- man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whence come the highest mountains? so did I once ask. Then did I learn that they come out of the sea.

That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist' ... I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever does not believe himself always lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Someone said: I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The former morality, namely Kant's, demanded of the individual actions which one desired of all men: that was a very naive thing; -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Discontent is the seed of ethics. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dante, or the hyena that writes poetry in tombs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man ... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- All things that endure for a long time are little by little so greatly permeated by reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable. Does -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong: so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if something great fails you, does that mean you yourselves are - failures? And if you yourselves are failures, does that mean - the human being is a failure? But if the human being is a failure: well then! come now! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is Platonism for the people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should never know too precisely whom one has married -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"
and want to create no value themselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful
but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The English are the people of consummate cant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you therefore want to depress and minimise man's capacity for pain, well, you must also depress and minimise his capacity for enjoyment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Was it not because I loved man all-too-much? Now I love God. man I love not. Man is for me too imperfect a thing. Love of man would kill me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And this do I say also to the o'erthrowers of statues: It is certainly the greatest folly to throw salt into the sea, and statues into the mud. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light
I call it a divine capacity for lightness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is more ape than many of the apes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing
that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness
that means cynically and with innocence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To the mean all becomes mean. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Self-knowledge would not especially need the sickly soul as well as the sound one; in short, whether the mere will to health is not a prejudice, a cowardice, and perhaps an instance of the subtlest barbarism and unprogressiveness ? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A vocation is the backbone of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All joy wills eternity - wills deep, deep eternity! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are feelings which want to kill the lonely; and if they do not succeed, well, then they themselves must die. But are you capable of this - to be a murderer? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are all afraid of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My soul is calm and clear, like the mountains in the morning. But they think I am cold, and a mocker with terrible jests. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh
one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It takes chaos to give birth to a dancing star -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The text has disappeared under the interpretation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit ... I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Books for the general reader are always ill-smelling books, the odour of paltry people clings to them. Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Against fantasists. - The fantasist denies reality to himself, the liar does so only to others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Excess of strength alone is proof of strength -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Malice is rare. Most men are much too concerned with themselves to be malicious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nevertheless, I am versed in the use of two weapons: saber and cannon - and, perhaps, one other ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spirit of the poet craves spectators ... even if only buffaloes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Swallow your poison, for you need it badly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is great in the human is that it is a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in the human is that it is a going-over and a going-under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones - "good" and "bad" are they called. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom
thus Zarathustra instructs you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine
which is to say, its little bit of humanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. Courageous, -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is hard to live with human beings because being silent is so hard. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Feel a pleasurable superiority, and are full of secret insight and penetration,-it -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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First, one has the difficulty of emancipating oneself from one's chains; and, ultimately, one has to emancipate oneself from this emancipation too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity is religion for the executioner. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have forgotten my umbrella. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of evils, as the most malign of evils; it remained behind at the source of all evil.) - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is my way, what is your way? The way doesn't exist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The men with whom we live resemble a field of ruins of the most precious sculptural designs where everything shouts at us: come, help, perfect ... we yearn immeasurably to become whole. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity makes suffering contagious. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Naked have I seen both of
them, the greatest man and the smallest man. All too similar are they still to each other. Verily, even the
greatest found I all too human. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With the new morning, however, there came unto me a new truth: then did I learn to say: Of what account to me are market-place and populace and populace-noise and long populace- ears! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whom do you call bad?
Those who always want to induce shame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Good Man
Better an enmity from one block
than friendship held together by glue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Can an ass be tragic?
To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Conditions for God.-1' God himself cannot subsist without wise men," said Luther, and with good reason ; but " God can still less subsist without unwise men,"-good Luther did not say that! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If God wrote the New Testament, he knew surprisingly little Greek. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the stillest words which bring the storm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What then are our experiences? Much more that which we put into them than that which they already contain! Or must we go so far as to say: in themselves they contain nothing? To experience is to invent -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Humility has the toughest hide. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?' -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unconditional love also includes - the ardent desire to be abused: at that point it is a defiance directed against itself, and out of its devotion the very wish for self-annihilation finally arises: "Drown in this sea! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shame, shame, shame - that is the history of the human! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, and with good reason. We have never looked at ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Belief means not wanting to know what is true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?
Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, "Each one is the farthest away from himself" - as far as ourselves are concerned we are not "knowers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is improbable that you are not mistaken, but why should it be the truth? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.- -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great problems are to be encountered in the street. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God
what? perhaps a "world"? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?
Yes, we should believe it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why did you live so long in the swamp that you yourself had to become a frog and a toad? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Misunderstanding of the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who fights monsters might take care, lest he thereby become a monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like a deep well is the solitary. Easy it is to throw a stone in; but if it sink to the bottom, tell me, who will want to fetch it out again? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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as soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise. Philosophy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too small. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Living being is only a species of dead being, and a very rare species. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Lonely now and miserably self-distrustful, I took sides, not without resentment, against myself and for everything that hurt me and was hard to me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you know the why, you can live any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who knows that he is profound strives for clearness; he who would like to appear profound to the multitude strives for obscurity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The English are a nation of consummate cant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Revaluation of all values! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are so many futures still to dawn! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What makes us heroic?
Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In true love it is the soul that envelops the body. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All philosophy is a form of confession. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are always only in our own company. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.
Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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concerns indeed morality, - a -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do you think most humane ?-To spare a person shame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The danger in happiness - Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.
Around God, everything becomes what? a world? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Flight from boredom is the mother of all art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Have already in the fourth act killed all the Gods- for the sake of morality! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Interpreting myself, I always read
Myself into my books. I clearly need
Some help. But all who climb on their own way
Carry my image, too, into the breaking day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must learn to love oneself- thus do I teach- with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a yea-sayer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price
dreadful tendencies! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not how one soul comes close to another, but how it moves away, shows me their kinship and how much they belong together. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive
signs of vulgarity! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human, all too human. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human existence basically is--a never to be completed imperfect tense. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the dark, time feels different than when it is light. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students
himself included. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where the strong are weak, and the noble all too mild - there it builds its disgusting nest: the parasite lives where the great have small wounded recesses. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Water is sufficient ... the spirit moves over water. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And again, there are those who sit in their swamp and speak thus from the rushes: 'Virtue - that means to sit quietly in the swamp.
We bite nobody and avoid him who wants to bite: and in everything we hold the opinion that is given us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your virtue is the health of your soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The universe without music would be madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I undertook something that not everyone may undertake: I descended into the depths, I bored into the foundations -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every word is a preconceived judgment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That disgusts me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are always in our own company. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have art so that we shall not die of reality. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who loves like a woman becomes thereby a slave ; a woman, however, who loves like a woman becomes thereby a more perfect woman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Since humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little: that alone, my brethren, is our original sin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do you believe in?
In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rather the artist's delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches
enduring loneliness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do I then strive after happiness? I strive after my work! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One times One.-One only is always in the wrong, but with two truth begins.-One only cannot prove himself right; but two are already beyond refutation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
was not born outdoors while moving about freely. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once and for all, there is a great deal I do not want to know. - Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No journey is too great,
when one finds what one seeks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not kill by anger but by laughter. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas - it loves to flyway - let my pride then fly with my folly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Through valuation only is there value; and without valuation the nut of existence would be hollow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Humor is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The human being first put values into things, in order to preserve itself - it created a meaning for things, a human's meaning! Therefore it calls itself 'human' - that is: the evaluator. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than by the dagger and ambush
they know also that all that is well said is believed in. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.[11] -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own
that is, for his age
so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Hold the capacity of feeling to be the most important and elemental, as providing the foundation for every sound and real growth; everything that is truly great and human. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. And much poison at last for a pleasant death. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the worst thing has two good verso-sides. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should steal only where one cannot rob. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is not everything that we consider important our betrayer ? It shows where our motives lie, and where our motives are altogether lacking. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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History would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And what ye have called the world shall but be created by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, you love, shall it itself become! and verily, for your bliss ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which you term "moderation", I call "mediocrity -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blissful Islands -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men after death are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one
and then we do too little. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every past is worth condemning. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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synthetic judgments a priori should not "be possible" at all; we have no right to them; in our mouths they are nothing but false judgments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues, - for thou wilt succumb by them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wasteland grows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual-and he does not call it poison. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only ideas won by walking have any value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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This world is the will to power and nothing besides! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall
upwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods. - Friedrich Nietzsche -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To make an individual uncomfortable, that is my task. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here is the hell for solitaries' thoughts: here great thoughts are boiled alive and then cooked down small. Here all the great feelings decay: here only tiny skin-and-bone feelings are allowed to rattle! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it ... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Success has always been a great liar -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love - Love forgives the lover even his lust. 63 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of the two, the one will always follow, the other will always lead, whatever be the course of their destiny. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than a very limited and remote corner. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everyone wants the same; everyone is the
same; he who has other sentiments goes voluntarily into the madhouse. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil
and he will not stay loyal to him
for he is also destined to become a master. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Was that life? Well then, once more! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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First learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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You revere me: but what if your reverence should some day collapse? Be careful lest a statue fall and kill you! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances - of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Which we can live-by -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing ... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many never become sweet; they rot even in the summer. It is cowardice that holdeth them fast to their branches. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great intellects are skeptical. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't want to be a saint, and would rather be a buffoon ... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The melancholy of everything completed! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One still works, for work is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man makes god in his own image. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the Seal of Attained Liberty ?-To be no longer ashamed of oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.
Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A thinking man never be a party man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one tells me anything new, so I tell myself my own story. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science "without presuppositions -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become timeless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am one thing, my writings are another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the end one experiences only oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The human is evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US - be a fiction? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that
I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the
truth at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insight into the origin of a work concerns the physiologists and vivisectionists of the spirit; never the aesthetic man, the artist! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am of today and of the has-been (he said then); but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowest thou not who is most needed by all? He who commandeth great things. To execute great things is difficult: but the more difficult task is to command great things. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Virtue is the health of the soul, -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our time, however much it talks of economy, is a squanderer: it squanders what is most precious, the spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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For ten years you have climbed here to my cave: you would have become weary of shining and of the journey, had it not been for me, my eagle, and my serpent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what is "outside itself," "different from itself," and "not itself: and this "no" is its creative deed. This -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The poison from which the weaker nature perishes strengthens the strong man - and he does not call it poison. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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With this effect, however, which he makes upon us he is well content: he wants to keep concealed from us his desire, his pride, his intention of flying above us.-Yes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise - -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without a constant counterfeiting of the world by means of numbers, man could not live - that -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not man, I'm dynamite -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman was God's second mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pain does not count as an objection to life -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus I spoke, and always more softly, for I was afraid of my thoughts, and of the thoughts behind my thoughts. Then, suddenly I heard a dog howl near me. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every kind of perfection is purchased at a high price on earth, where everything is perhaps purchased too dear; one is an expert in one's department at the price of being also a victim of one's department. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I came to men, then found I them resting on an old infatuation: all of them thought they had long known what was good and bad for men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Energy wasted on negative ends. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines - a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog". -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man can endure any how if he has a why. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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They are not so much afraid of ennui as of labour without pleasure; -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Help yourself, then everyone will help you. Principle of brotherly love. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Take care not to spit against the wind! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And nobody lies as much as the indignant do. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To live as it pleases me, or not to live at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am almost equal to a shadow. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have never pondered over questions that are not questions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not doubt, CERTAINTY is what drives one insane -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere
he must either deny it or create it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love, too, has to be learned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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And indeed, just think: in many ways, body and soul, I have been more a battlefield than a human being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions - ? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We ought to face our destiny with courage. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Some men are born posthumously. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love to lose myself for a while. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ridendo dicere severum. (<>trong>trtrong>. Through what is laughable say what is somber.) -- Friedrich Nietzsche