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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.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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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.
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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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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 -
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.
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
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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 -
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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.
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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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