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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are prisons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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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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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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
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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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
