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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of 'aristocrats of the spirit,' reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
