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"One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain."
"He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat."
"By losing your goal, You have lost your way."
"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper."
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
"You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-"
"Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth."
"Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens."
"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."
"The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
"Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers."
"A life without music is an error."
"To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is."
"Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most."
"We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!"
"Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity."
"The text has disappeared under the interpretation."
"Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves."