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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
Friedrich Nietzsche