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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Love, too, has to be learned.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Wie? ist der Mensch nur ein Fehlgriff Gottes? Oder Gott nur ein Fehlgriff des Menschen?
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' - it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.
Friedrich Nietzsche