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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. #Nietzsche

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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. #Nietzsche

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Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves. #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! #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. #Nietzsche

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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! #Nietzsche

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. #Nietzsche

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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? #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. #Nietzsche

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. #Nietzsche

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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. #Nietzsche

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. #Nietzsche

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Faith: not wanting to know what is true. #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. #Nietzsche

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A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. #Nietzsche

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. #Nietzsche

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. #Nietzsche

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Remedium amoris. - The cure for love is still in most cases that ancient radical medicine: love in return. #Nietzsche

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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. #Nietzsche

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. #Nietzsche

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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. #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. #Nietzsche

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Third question of conscience: Are you one who looks on? Or one who lends a hand? Or one who looks away and walks? #Nietzsche

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. #Nietzsche

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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. #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. #Nietzsche

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. #Nietzsche

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice? #Nietzsche

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. #Nietzsche

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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. #Nietzsche

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. #Nietzsche

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. #Nietzsche

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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. #Nietzsche

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Love is not consolation. It is light. #Nietzsche

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? #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.

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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. #Nietzsche

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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. #Nietzsche

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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. #Nietzsche

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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. #Nietzsche

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Higher than all reconciliation must the Will will, which the will to power is. #Nietzsche

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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. #Nietzsche

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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. #Nietzsche

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. #Nietzsche

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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. #Nietzsche

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Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. #Nietzsche

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. #Nietzsche

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In music the passions enjoy themselves. #Nietzsche

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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. #Nietzsche

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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it. #Nietzsche

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For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. #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. #Nietzsche

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. #Nietzsche

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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! #Nietzsche

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What does your conscience say? - "You shall become the person you are." #Nietzsche

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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. #Nietzsche

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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. #Nietzsche

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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. #Nietzsche

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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather opposite. #Nietzsche

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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. #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. #Nietzsche

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Better know nothing than half-know many things. #Nietzsche

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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. #Nietzsche

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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult. #Nietzsche

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When asses are needed. - You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass. #Nietzsche

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Success has always been a great liar. #Nietzsche

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Love-matches. - Marriages contracted from love (so-called love-matches) have error for their father and need for their mother. #Nietzsche

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To live alone one must be an animal or a God - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher. #Nietzsche

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He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. #Nietzsche

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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. #Nietzsche

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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. #Nietzsche

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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. #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. #Nietzsche

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In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is. #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. #Nietzsche

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It is true: we love life not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. #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? #Nietzsche

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What is strong wins: that is the universal law. If only it were not so often precisely what is stupid and evil! #Nietzsche

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Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all. #Nietzsche

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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. #Nietzsche

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Body am I, and soul - so says the child. And why should one not speak like children? #Nietzsche

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. #Nietzsche

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Fear is the mother of morality. #Nietzsche

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. #Nietzsche

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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. #Nietzsche

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How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we are marching into battle against an enemy. #Nietzsche

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. #Nietzsche

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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? #Nietzsche

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Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue. #Nietzsche

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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. #Nietzsche

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Some are born posthumously. #Nietzsche

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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. #Nietzsche

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. #Nietzsche

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. #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? #Nietzsche

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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. #Nietzsche

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Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy. #Nietzsche

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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming. #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. #Nietzsche

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. #Nietzsche

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Plato was a bore. #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. #Nietzsche

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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. #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." #Nietzsche

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To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. #Nietzsche

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One does not kill by anger but by laughter. #Nietzsche

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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. #Nietzsche

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. #Nietzsche

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What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons. #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. #Nietzsche

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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.-- Every word is a prejudice. #Nietzsche

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It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. #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. #Nietzsche

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Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. #Nietzsche

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. #Nietzsche

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Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? #Nietzsche

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. #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. #Nietzsche

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. #Nietzsche

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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward. #Nietzsche

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. #Nietzsche

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Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all. #Nietzsche

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. #Nietzsche

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That which does not kill me makes me stronger. #Nietzsche

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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. #Nietzsche

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Great intellects are skeptical. #Nietzsche

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One must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. #Nietzsche

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. #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. #Nietzsche

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... The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men ... #Nietzsche

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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. #Nietzsche

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Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. #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. #Nietzsche

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This is the antinomy: Insofar as we believe in morality we pass sentence on existence. #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. #Nietzsche

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Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow. #Nietzsche

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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. #Nietzsche

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. #Nietzsche

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Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shallow. #Nietzsche

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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. #Nietzsche

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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. #Nietzsche

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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. #Nietzsche

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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. #Nietzsche

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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. #Nietzsche

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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. #Nietzsche

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It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come on doves' feet guide the world. #Nietzsche

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Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow. #Nietzsche

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Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? #Nietzsche

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Truth. - No one now dies of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. #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. #Nietzsche

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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. #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. #Nietzsche

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Those who deny chance. - 'No victor believes in chance.' #Nietzsche

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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. #Nietzsche

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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. #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. #Nietzsche

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. #Nietzsche

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To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is. #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. #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. #Nietzsche

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Mankind is a rope tied between beast and superman -- a rope over an abyss. #Nietzsche

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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. #Nietzsche

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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. #Nietzsche

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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. #Nietzsche

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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. #Nietzsche

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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. #Nietzsche

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The goal of mankind cannot lie in its end, but in its highest specimens. #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. #Nietzsche

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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. #Nietzsche

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Faith means not wanting to know what is true. #Nietzsche

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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. #Nietzsche

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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. #Nietzsche

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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment. #Nietzsche

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Free from what? As if that mattered to Zarathustra! But your eyes should tell me brightly: free for what? #Nietzsche

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Through music the passions enjoy themselves. #Nietzsche

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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. #Nietzsche

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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. #Nietzsche

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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. #Nietzsche

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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them. #Nietzsche

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. #Nietzsche

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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must be a sea to be able to receive a polluted stream without becoming unclean. #Nietzsche

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. #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." #Nietzsche

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The lie is a condition of life. #Nietzsche

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What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness. #Nietzsche

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. #Nietzsche

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The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding - in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. #Nietzsche

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I love those who do not know how to live for today. #Nietzsche

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Art raises its head where creeds relax. #Nietzsche

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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. #Nietzsche

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. #Nietzsche

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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? #Nietzsche

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We have art in order not to die of the truth. #Nietzsche

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Idleness is the parent of psychology. #Nietzsche

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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt. #Nietzsche

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Christianity is called the religion of pity. #Nietzsche

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In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. #Nietzsche

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. #Nietzsche

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It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day. #Nietzsche

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. #Nietzsche

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. #Nietzsche

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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. #Nietzsche

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. #Nietzsche

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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. #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. #Nietzsche

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Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood. #Nietzsche

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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. #Nietzsche

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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. #Nietzsche

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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. #Nietzsche

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These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. #Nietzsche

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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. #Nietzsche

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Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day. #Nietzsche

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You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine? #Nietzsche

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times. #Nietzsche

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Plato is boring. #Nietzsche

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. #Nietzsche

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The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. #Nietzsche

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. #Nietzsche

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That is mediocrity though it be called moderation. #Nietzsche

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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. #Nietzsche

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Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? #Nietzsche

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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. #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. #Nietzsche

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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. #Nietzsche

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What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. #Nietzsche

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. #Nietzsche

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. #Nietzsche

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There are no facts, only interpretations. #Nietzsche

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When one has not had a good father, one must create one. #Nietzsche

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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? #Nietzsche

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First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it. #Nietzsche

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. #Nietzsche

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I do not like it' - Why? - 'I am not up to it'. -Has anyone ever answered like that? #Nietzsche

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. #Nietzsche

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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I #Nietzsche

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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. #Nietzsche

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. #Nietzsche

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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. #Nietzsche

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Woman was God's second mistake. #Nietzsche

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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. #Nietzsche

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The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. #Nietzsche

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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified. #Nietzsche

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Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? #Nietzsche

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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. #Nietzsche

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Enemies of truth.-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. #Nietzsche

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. #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. #Nietzsche

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Art is the proper task of life. #Nietzsche

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. #Nietzsche

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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. #Nietzsche

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. #Nietzsche

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I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. #Nietzsche

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Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph. #Nietzsche

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The future influences the present just as much as the past. #Nietzsche

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual. #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. #Nietzsche

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. #Nietzsche

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God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. #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. #Nietzsche

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. #Nietzsche

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We ought to face our destiny with courage. #Nietzsche

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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. #Nietzsche

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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. #Nietzsche

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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. #Nietzsche

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Man and things. - Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. #Nietzsche

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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling. #Nietzsche

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Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. #Nietzsche

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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. #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. #Nietzsche

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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. #Nietzsche

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One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong nor hesitates in the performance. #Nietzsche

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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy. #Nietzsche

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I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want 2 accuse; I do not even want 2 accuse those who accuse. #Nietzsche

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What is the seal of liberation? - No longer being ashamed in front of oneself. #Nietzsche

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. #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! #Nietzsche

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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. #Nietzsche

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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. #Nietzsche

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A man's maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play. #Nietzsche

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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? #Nietzsche

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. #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. #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. #Nietzsche

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. #Nietzsche

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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? #Nietzsche

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. #Nietzsche

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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. #Nietzsche

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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. #Nietzsche

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. #Nietzsche

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What is bad? All that is born of weakness. #Nietzsche

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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. #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. #Nietzsche

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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. #Nietzsche

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. #Nietzsche

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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. #Nietzsche

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Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent-thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior. #Nietzsche

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. #Nietzsche

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We are always in our own company. #Nietzsche

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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. #Nietzsche

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The doer alone learneth. #Nietzsche

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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. #Nietzsche

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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. #Nietzsche

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. #Nietzsche

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This is my way; where is yours? - Thus I answered those who asked me "the way." For the way - that does not exist. #Nietzsche

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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. #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. #Nietzsche

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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. #Nietzsche

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Faith as an imperative is a veto against science -- in praxi, it means lies at any price. #Nietzsche

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What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. #Nietzsche

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. #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. #Nietzsche

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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. #Nietzsche

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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. #Nietzsche

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. #Nietzsche

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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. #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. #Nietzsche

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One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. #Nietzsche

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Only sick music makes money today. #Nietzsche

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. #Nietzsche

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In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play. #Nietzsche

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