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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche