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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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 talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We 'conserve' nothing; neither do we want to return to any past periods; we are not by any means 'liberal'; we do not work for 'progress'; we do not need to plug up our ears against the sirens who in the market place sing of the future: their song about 'equal rights,' 'a free society,' 'no more masters and no servants' has no allure for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
