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In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Beware of spitting against the wind!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way - not at all or in an interesting manner.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We obtain the concept, as we do the form, by overlooking what is individual and actual; whereas nature is acquainted with no forms and no concepts, and likewise with no species, but only with an X which remains inaccessible and undefinable for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche
