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"Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age."
"In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest."
"What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it."
"I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you."
"Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child."
"In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play."
"Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions."
"Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another."
"Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role."
"I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going."
"On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams."
"All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them."
"Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them."
"Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs."
"Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy."
"Certitude drives people mad."
"Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm."
"Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended."
"He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others."
"Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach."