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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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The noble soul reveres itself.
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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Convictions are prisons.