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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .
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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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Unglück. - Die Auszeichnung, welche im Unglück liegt (als ob es ein Zeichen von Flachheit, Anspruchslosigkeit, Gewöhnlichkeit sei, sich glücklich zu fühlen), ist so gross, dass wenn Jemand Einem sagt: 'Aber wie glücklich Sie sind!' man gewöhnlich protestirt.
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche