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"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."
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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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Convictions are prisons.
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Life without music is no life at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche