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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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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
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Plato was a bore.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
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Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
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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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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.
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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.
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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.
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It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!
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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
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Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.
Friedrich Nietzsche