"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
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"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."
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"It is the stillest words that bring the storm."
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"At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards."
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"The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all."
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"A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne."
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"We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery."
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"The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world."
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"Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting."
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"What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today."
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"Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music."
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"Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind."
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"A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath."
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"Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'."
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"Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive."
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"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."
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"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity."
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"We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love."
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
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"Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play."
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