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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Humility has the toughest hide.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.
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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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Master-morality and Slave-morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
Friedrich Nietzsche
