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The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The English are a nation of consummate cant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
Friedrich Nietzsche
