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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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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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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysischen Thätigkeit dieses Lebens im Sinne des Mannes überzeugt bin, dem ich hier, als meinem erhabenen Vorkämpfer auf dieser Bahn, diese Schrift gewidmet haben will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
Friedrich Nietzsche