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Nietzsche, Friedrich
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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Deeds and Good Deeds
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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Civil Rights
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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Books - Reading
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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Death and Dying
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Conformity
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy s life.
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Enemies
Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
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Christians and Christianity
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Christians and Christianity
Christianity makes suffering contagious.
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Christians and Christianity
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Death and Dying
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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Certainty
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one s strength, to read a book --I call that vicious!
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Books - Reading
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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Fathers
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.
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Creativity
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
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Disability
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Cities and City Life
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God s boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Bores and Boredom
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
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Bores and Boredom
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don t want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.
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Conscience
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.
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Causes
One ought to hold on to one s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Emotions
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
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Chastity
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
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Emotions
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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Egotism
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
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Brevity
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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Fanatics and Fanaticism
If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.
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Fashion
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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Forgiveness
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Friends and Friendship
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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Focus
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
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Equality
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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Lies and Lying
The lie is a condition of life.
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Lies and Lying
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
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Feminism
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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Free Will
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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Freedom
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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Lies and Lying
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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Friends and Friendship
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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Frankness
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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Lies and Lying
I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
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God
Is man one of God s blunders or is God one of man s blunders?
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God
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Free Will
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.
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God
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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Fights and Fighting
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Extremes and Extremists
What is wanted -- whether this is admitted or not -- is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.
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Individuality
A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.
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Experience
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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Excellence
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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Future
Fear is the mother of morality.
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Fear
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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Experience
There are no facts, only interpretations.
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Facts
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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Facts
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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Individuality
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
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Love
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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Paradise
Only sick music makes money today.
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Music
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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Love
Without music, life would be a mistake.
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Music
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
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Laughter
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
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Humankind
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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Mathematics
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
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Humankind
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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Praise
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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Life and Living
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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Life and Death
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
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Music
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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Language
Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
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Madness
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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Letters
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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Image
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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Judgment and Judges
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Ideals and Idealism
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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Inaction
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Memory
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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Instinct
The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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Jesus Christ
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Praise
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
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Marriage
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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Marriage
Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
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Insanity
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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Praise
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
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Introspection
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.
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Nature
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
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Knowledge
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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Knowledge
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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Love
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Laughter
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Humility
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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Oppression
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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Pride
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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Men and Women
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
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Obscenity
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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Men
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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Strategies
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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Morality
Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
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Necessity
Altered opinions do not alter a man s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.
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Opinions
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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Politicians and Politics
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Past
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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Merit
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Spirit and Spirituality
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Past
Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Power
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
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Reason
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Mistakes
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
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Physics
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
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Opinions
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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Spirit and Spirituality
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say thus it shall be!, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past -- they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their knowing is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -- will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?
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Philosophers and Philosophy
Plato was a bore.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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Self-esteem
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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Resentment
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
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Time and Time Management
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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Ugliness
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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Self-control
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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Taste
Success has always been a great liar.
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Success
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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Technology
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
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Thoughts and Thinking
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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Psychology
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
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Truth
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
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Struggle
What really raises one s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
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Suffering
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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Sincerity
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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Suicide
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Religion
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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Senses
To forget one s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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Purpose
Great intellects are skeptical.
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Skepticism
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Punishment
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Sports
Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
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Truth
To give style to one s character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
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Style
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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Uniqueness
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
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Speakers and Speaking
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
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Punishment
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Strength
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Science and Scientists
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
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Suicide
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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Asceticism
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Fallibility
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Action
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service.
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Dance and Dancing
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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Arts and Artists
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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Goodness
What doesn t kill us makes us stronger.
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Adversity
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Asceticism
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
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Enjoyment
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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Arts and Artists
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
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Heaven
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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Age and Aging
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Arts and Artists
We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.
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Dance and Dancing
The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death.
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Heaven
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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Education
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Beauty
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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Absurdity
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Absurdity
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.
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Beauty
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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Beggars
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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Architecture
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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Animals
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
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Anarchism
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
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Danger
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of eternity; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.
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Aphorisms and Epigrams
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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Existence
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
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Aphorisms and Epigrams
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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Argument
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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War
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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Virtue
Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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Women
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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Women
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Wisdom
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Wisdom
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!
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Vanity
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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Writers and Writing
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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Wisdom
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Wit
I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.
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Vision
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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Walking
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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Value