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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!
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Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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Wie finden wir uns selbst wieder? Wie kann sich der Mensch kennen? Er ist eine dunkle und verhüllte Sache; und wenn der Hase sieben Häute hat, so kann der Mensch sich sieben mal siebzig abziehn und wird noch nicht sagen können: »das bist du nun wirklich, das ist nicht mehr Schale«.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.
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What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
Friedrich Nietzsche