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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. View quote
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed... View quote
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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance. View quote
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. View quote
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God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment - but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. View quote
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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike. View quote
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The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence - here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws." View quote
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be." View quote
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Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. View quote
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely-that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come. View quote
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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". View quote
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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power. View quote
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness. View quote
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[I am dynamite]I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. View quote
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What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons. View quote
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed. View quote
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We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God. View quote
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize). View quote
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. View quote
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Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed... View quote
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search. View quote
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We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance. View quote
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