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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
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.
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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche