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The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.
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wir vermeinen, daß Härte, Gewaltsamkeit, Sklaverie, Gefahr auf der Gasse und im Herzen, Verborgenheit, Stoicismus, Versucherkunst und Teufelei jeder Art, daß alles Böse, Furchtbare, Tyrannische, Raubthier- und Schlangenhafte am Menschen so gut zur Erhöhung der Species »Mensch« dient, als sein Gegensatz...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;Great agony always compels you,The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;But no one thanks you any longer …
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.
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One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.
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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
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The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.
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What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche