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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Some men are born posthumously.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
Friedrich Nietzsche