"Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome"
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"How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude."
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"Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds."
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"A vocation is the backbone of life."
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"The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life."
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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."
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"We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish."
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"One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way."
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"If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved"
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"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance."
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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance."
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"Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly."
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"I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me."
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"Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?"
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"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!"
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"We ought to face our destiny with courage."
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"Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy"
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"Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!"
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"How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence."
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