"'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd."
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"Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane."
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"There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time."
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"The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!"
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"The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity."
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"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."
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"Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion."
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"How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!"
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"A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one."
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"In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard."
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"About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say."
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"Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior."
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"It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity."
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"We are always in our own company."
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"That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence."
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"A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction."
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"Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes."
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"Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them."
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"I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?"
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