"Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact."
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"A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures."
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"I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not."
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"I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes."
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"Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness."
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"I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers."
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"Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape."
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"
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"What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim."
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"Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed."
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"I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom."
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"All words are prejudices."
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"An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit."
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"Only individuals have a sense of responsibility."
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"Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning."
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"I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself."
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"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."
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"On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine."
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"Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night."
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"More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time."
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