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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
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Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
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The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
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On every parable you ride to every truth.
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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Only fool! Only poet!Merely speaking colorfully,From fools' masks shouting colorfully,Climbing about on deceptive word-bridges,On misleading rainbows,Between false heavensRambling, lurking -Only fool! Only poet!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche