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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
Friedrich Nietzsche