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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
