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If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
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Existence begins in every instant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
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Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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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.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
Friedrich Nietzsche