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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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!
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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. 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 one already has.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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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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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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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.
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
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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.
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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.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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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.
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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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.
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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?
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Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
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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