"Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached."
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"It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it."
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"We are terrified by the idea of being terrified."
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"Almost two thousand years, and no new god!"
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"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."
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"Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power."
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"If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods."
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"There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic)."
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"Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally."
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"You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking"
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"I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!"
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"Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price."
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"For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason."
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"The greatest giver of alms is cowardice."
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"Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins"
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"Convictions are prisons."
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"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness."
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"But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them."
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"But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?"
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"Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice."
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