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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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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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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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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
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The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom.
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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.
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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
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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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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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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life...three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty - all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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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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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.