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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.
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I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.