"It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?"
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"It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?"
"The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace."
"Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them."
"When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him."
"Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone."
"Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths."
"All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd."
"We are all afraid of the truth."
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
"For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's."
"What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness."
"I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?"
"Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased."
"Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome."
"He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure."
"Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power."
"I am not a human being, I am dynamite."
"We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature."
"Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking."
"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."