"Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns."
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"When thou goest to woman, take thy whip."
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"Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox."
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"In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase."
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"You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician."
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"The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies."
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"So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine."
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"The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man."
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"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?"
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"Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances."
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"whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable."
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"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
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"I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going."
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"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable."
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"Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?"
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"There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them."
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"The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any."
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"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are."
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"You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake."
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"The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack."
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