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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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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every profound spirit needs a mask.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty
Friedrich Nietzsche
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
