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It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
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Humility has the toughest hide.
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
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What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
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Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.
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That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
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People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
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Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
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Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.
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He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
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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.
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I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.
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