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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
