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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.
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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Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
