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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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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Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
