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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?
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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.
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time - in the form of legislation and customs.
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
Friedrich Nietzsche