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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
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I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche