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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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On every parable you ride to every truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
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For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
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The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche