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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)
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. View quote
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates. View quote
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. View quote
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for? View quote
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. View quote
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. View quote
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. View quote
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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. View quote
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I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much. View quote
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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men! View quote
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Man is something to be surpassed. View quote
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. View quote
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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. View quote
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. View quote
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. View quote
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Was that life? Well then, once more! View quote
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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. View quote
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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! View quote
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. View quote
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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. View quote
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. View quote
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Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation. View quote
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