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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Christianity is Platonism for the people.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
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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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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche