"...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone."
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"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death."
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"The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences."
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"An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises."
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"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think."
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"No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse."
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"All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity."
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"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."
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"We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to."
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"Only where there are graves are there resurrections."
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"A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous"."
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"But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue."
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"Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?"
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"In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man."
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"Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed."
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"How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy."
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"What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome."
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"The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living."
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"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine."
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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die."
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