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How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.
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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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...
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
