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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
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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 hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of 'aristocrats of the spirit,' reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
Friedrich Nietzsche