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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum. Wir glauben nicht an ein Recht, das nicht auf der Macht ruht, sich durchzusetzen: wir empfinden alle Rechte als Eroberungen.
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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.
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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche