"It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history."
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"If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment."
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"The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---"
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"He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike."
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"A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral."
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"Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!"
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"Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has."
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"We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship."
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"My humanity is a constant self-overcoming."
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"When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous."
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"Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else."
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"The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices."
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"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting"
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"Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist."
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"The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!"
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"Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!"
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"Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live."
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"[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust."
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"Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences."
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"Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'"
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