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"Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun."
"Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!"
"Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon."
"Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure."
"Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred."
"You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man."
"Christianity is religion for the executioner."
"Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid)."
"One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."
"Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness."
"Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense."
"There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind."
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
"It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm."
"Every word is a preconceived judgment."
"Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?"
"Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you."
"We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it."
"Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane."
"The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."