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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Friedrich 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
Friedrich 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.
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
