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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
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Every word is a prejudice.
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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
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Um aber unsere Klassiker so falsch beurteilen und so beschimpfend ehren zu können, muß man sie gar nicht mehr kennen: und dies ist die allgemeine Tatsache. Denn sonst müßte man wissen, daß es nur eine Art gibt, sie zu ehren, nämlich dadurch, daß man fortfährt, in ihrem Geiste und mit ihrem Mute zu suchen, und dabei nicht müde wird.
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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche