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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
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Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.
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We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
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People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.
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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
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Einige werden posthum geboren.
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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The doctrine of equality! … But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice … 'Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal' - that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, 'never make the unequal equal'.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
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Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche