"Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like."
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". . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!"
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"Become who you are. Make what only you can make."
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"But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power."
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"The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself."
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"Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true."
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"How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error."
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"Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?"
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"Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life."
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"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
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"Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself)."
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"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
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"A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions."
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"You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!"
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."
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"I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals."
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"The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills."
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"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
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"I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer."
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"Man is the cruelest animal."
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