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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The noble soul reveres itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche