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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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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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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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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 free man is a warrior.
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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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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.