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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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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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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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.
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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 -
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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 -
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
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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 -
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche