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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
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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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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 not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
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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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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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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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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
