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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. View quote
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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too. View quote
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On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. View quote
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. View quote
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. View quote
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared! View quote
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. View quote
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. View quote
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. View quote
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? View quote
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Plato is boring. View quote
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil. View quote
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. View quote
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I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. View quote
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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off. View quote
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession... View quote
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive! View quote
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It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions. View quote
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends. View quote
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If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed. View quote
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”. View quote
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things. View quote
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