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A Woman Does Not Want The Truth; What Is Truth To Women? From The Beginning, Nothing Has Been More Alien, Repugnant, And Hostile To Woman Than The Truth - Her Great Art Is The Lie, Her Highest Concern Is Mere Appearance And Beauty.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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A Woman Does Not

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A Woman Does Not Want The Truth; What Is Truth To Women? From The Beginning, Nothing Has Been More Alien, Repugnant, And Hostile To Woman Than The Truth - Her Great Art Is The Lie, Her Highest Concern Is Mere Appearance And Beauty.

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For Some Natures, Changing Their Opinions Is Just As Much A Requirement Of Cleanliness As Changing Their Clothes: For Others, However, It Is Merely A Requirement Of Vanity.

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When There Is A Choice About It, A Great Sacrifice Is Preferable To A Small Sacrifice, Because We Compensate Ourselves For A Greatone With Self-admiration, Which Is Not Possible With A Small One.

But Let Me Open Up My Heart To You Completely, My Friends: If There Were Gods, How Could I Bear Not Being A God! Hence, There Areno Gods. I Drew This Conclusion, To Be Sure--but Now It Draws Me.

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.

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It Says Nothing Against The Ripeness Of A Spirit That It Has A Few Worms.

Today I Love Myself As I Love My God: Who Could Charge Me With A Sin Today? I Know Only Sins Against My God; But Who Knows My God?

This Is The Crux Of The Moral Pessimists: If They Really Wanted To Promote Their Neighbor's Redemption, Then They Would Have To Resolve Themselves To Spoiling Existence For Him, And Thus To Being His Misfortune; Out Of Pity, They Would Have To--become Evil!

I Want To Speak To The Despisers Of The Body. I Would Not Have Them Learn And Teach Differently, But Merely Say Farewell To Their Own Bodies-- And Thus Become Silent.

The Higher We Soar The Smaller We Appear To Those Who Cannot Fly.

What The Sense Feeleth, What The Spirit Discerneth, Hath Never Its End In Itself. But Sense And Spirit Would Fain Persuade Thee That They Are The End Of All Things: So Vain Are They.

For Such Is Man: A Theological Dogma Might Be Refuted To Him A Thousand Times - Provided However, That He Had Need Of It, He Would Again And Again Accept It As True. Belief Is Always Most Desired, Most Pressingly Needed Where There Is A Lack Of Will. Fanaticism Is The Sole "volitional Strength" To Which The Weak And Irresolute Can Be Excited, As A Sort Of Hypnotising Of The Entire Sensory-intellectual System.

All Things Are Subject To Interpretation Whichever Interpretation Prevails At A Given Time Is A Function Of Power And Not Truth.

It Is The Powerful Who Know How To Honour, It Is Their Art, Their Domain For Invention.

Both Classically- And Romantically-minded Spirits-inasmuch As These Two Species Always Exist-occupy Themselves With A Vision Of The Future: But The Former Do So Out Of A Strength Of Their Age, The Latter Out Of Its Weakness.

Visions Of The Future

Willing Sets You Free: That Is The True Doctrine Of Will And Freedom--thus Zarathustra Instructs You.

Who Can Attain To Anything Great If He Does Not Feel In Himself The Force And Will To Inflict Great Pain?

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The Best Belongs To Me And Mine; And If We Are Not Given It, We Take It: The Best Food, The Purest Sky, The Most Robust Thoughts, The Fairest Women!

I Obviously Do Everything To Be "hard To Understand" Myself

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The Germans Are Like Women, You Can Scarcely Ever Fathom Their Depths - They Haven't Any.

Inaction, Letting Be, Neither Creating Nor Destroying--that Is My Evil. And Also The Knower As One Without Desire.

In The End We Love Our Desire And Not What It Is That We Desire.

Faith Makes Blessed. Consequently It Lies.

We Believe That We Know Something About The Things Themselves When We Speak Of Trees, Colors, Snow, And Flowers; And Yet We Possess Nothing But Metaphors For Things - Metaphors Which Correspond In No Way To The Original Entities.

We Think That Play And Fairytales Belong To Childhood - How Shortsighted That Is! As Though We Would Want At Any Time In Our Life To Live Without Play And Fairytales! We Give These Things Other Names, To Be Sure, And Feel Differently About Them, But Precisely This Is The Evidence That They Are The Same Things, For The Child Too Regards Play As His Work And Fairy Tales As His Truth. The Brevity Of Life Ought To Preserve Us From A Pedantic Division Of Life Into Different Stages - As Though Each Brought Something New.

Sins Are Indispensable To Every Society Organized On An Ecclesiastical Basis; They Are The Only Reliable Weapons Of Power; The Priest Lives Upon Sins; It Is Necessary To Him That There Be Sinning.

The Reasons And Purposes For Habits Are Always Lies That Are Added Only After Some People Begin To Attack These Habits And To Ask For Reasons And Purposes. At This Point The Conservatives Of All Ages Are Thoroughly Dishonest: They Add Lies.

Is Wagner A Human Being At All? Is He Not Rather A Disease? He Contaminates Everything He Touches - He Has Made Music Sick.

That Whatever A Man Says, Promises, Or Resolves In Passion He Must Stick To Later On When He Is Cold And Sober--this Demand Is Among The Heaviest Burdens That Weigh On Humankind.

Whatever Harm The Evil May Do, The Harm Done By The Good Is The Most Harmful Harm.

He Who Denies His Own Vanity Usually Possesses It In So Brutal A Form That He Instinctively Shuts His Eyes To Avoid The Necessity Of Despising Himself.

One Cannot Read The New Testament Without Acquired Admiration For Whatever It Abuses Not To Speak Of The "wisdom Of This World," Which An Impudent Wind Bag Tries To Dispose Of "by The Foolishness Of Preaching."

The Drive Toward The Formation Of Metaphors Is The Fundamental Human Drive, Which One Cannot For A Single Instant Dispense With In Thought , For One Would Thereby Dispense With Man Himself.

There Is An Innocence In Lying Which Is The Sign Of Good Faith In A Cause.

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.

Only The Most Acute And Active Animals Are Capable Of Boredom.

The Governments Of The Great States Have Two Instruments For Keeping The People Dependent, In Fear And Obedience: A Coarser, The Army; And A More Refined, The School.

I Am A Law Only For My Kind, I Am No Law For All.

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.

Beggars Should Be Entirely Abolished! Truly, It Is Annoying To Give To Them And Annoying Not To Give To Them.

Philosophical Systems Are Wholly True For Their Founders Only.

In Affability There Is No Hatred Of Men, But For That Very Reason There Is All Too Much Contempt For Men.

Many People Wait Throughout Their Whole Lives For The Chance To Be Good In Their Own Fashion.

In The End One Only Experiences Oneself.

I Call Christianity The One Great Curse, The One Great Intrinsic Depravity, And The One Great Instinct Of Revenge, For Which No Means Are Venomous Enough, Or Secret, Subterranean And Small Enough - I Call It The One Immortal Blemish On The Human Race.

I Love Those Who Do Not Know How To Live, Except By Going Under, For They Are Those Who Cross Over.

Whoever Aims Publicly At Great Things And At Length Perceives Secretly That He Is Too Weak To Achieve Them, Has Usually Also Insufficient Strength To Renounce His Aims Publicly, And Then Inevitably Becomes A Hypocrite.

Creating-that Is The Great Salvation From Suffering.

The So Called Unconscious Inferences Can Be Traced Back To The All-preserving Memory, Which Presents Us With Parallel Experiences And Hence Already Knows The Consequences Of An Action. It Is Not Anticipation Of The Effects; Rather, It Is The Feeling: Identical Causes, Identical Effects . . .

Was Mich Nicht Zugrunde Richtet, Macht Mich Starker.

I Know My Fate. One Day My Name Will Be Tied To The Memory Of Something Monstrous - A Crisis Without Equal On Earth.... I Am No Man, I Am Dynamite!

When You Look Into An Abyss, The Abyss Also Looks Into You.

You Cannot Learn To Fly By Flying. First You Must Learn To Walk, To Run, To Climb, To Dance.

In The End We Are Always Rewarded For Our Good Will, Our Patience, Fair-mindedness, And Gentleness With What Is Strange.

Ye Shall Only Have Foes To Be Hated; But Not Foes To Be Despised: Ye Must Be Proud Of Your Foes.

Is It Better To Out-monster The Monster Or To Be Quietly Devoured?

I Have Not The Capability To Give You My Loyalty, Nor Do I Have The Vanity To Appear As If I Did.

One Will Seldom Go Wrong If One Attributes Extreme Actions To Vanity, Average Ones To Habit, And Pretty Ones To Fear.

We Do Not Hate As Long As We Still Attach A Lesser Value, But Only When We Attach An Equal Or A Greater Value.

I Shall Repeat A Hundred Times; We Really Ought To Free Ourselves From The Seduction Of Words!

If There Were Gods, How Could I Endure Not To Be A God? Therefore There Are No Gods.

Man's Task Is Simple. He Should Cease Letting His Existence Be A Thoughtless Accident.

One Does Not Hate So Long As One Continues To Rate Low, But Only When One Has Come To Rate Equal Or Higher.

The Noble Caste Was In The Beginning Always The Barbarian Caste: Their Superiority Lay, Not In Their Physical Strength, But Primarily In Their Psychical - They Were More Complete Human Beings.

Physical Strength

Dancing In All Its Forms Cannot Be Excluded From The Curriculum Of All Noble Education; Dancing With The Feet, With Ideas, With Words, And, Need I Add That One Must Also Be Able To Dance With The Pen?

"faith" As An Imperative Is A Veto Against Science-in Praxi, It Means Lies At Any Price.

Be Careful When You Fight The Monsters, Lest You Become One.

Art Is Essentially The Affirmation, The Blessing, And The Deification Of Existence.

To Blaspheme The Earth Is Now The Most Dreadful Sin, And To Rate The Heart Of The Unknowable Higher Than The Meaning Of The Earth!

But Anyone Who Has Really Made Sacrifices Knows That He Wanted And Got Something In Return Perhaps Something For Something Of Himself - That He Gave Up In Order To Have More Here Or At Least To Feel That He Has "more".

One Repays A Teacher Badly If One Always Remains Nothing But A Pupil.

The Spiritualization Of Sensuality Is Called Love: It Is A Great Triumph Over Christianity.

At Present I Am Light, Now I Fly, Now I See Myself Below Me, Now A God Dances Through Me.

Life, And You, And I, And All Of Us Together Became For A While Interesing To Ourselves Once More.

We Belong To An Age Whose Culture Is In Danger Of Perishing Through The Means To Culture.

When One Has A Great Deal To Put Into It A Day Has A Hundred Pockets.

When Virtue Has Slept It Will Arise More Vigorous.

Love Your Enemies Because They Bring Out The Best In You.

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Democracy Represents The Disbelief In All Great Men And In All Elite Societies: Everybody Is Everybody's Equal.

The Higher You Ascend, The Smaller You Appear To The Eye Of Envy. But Most Of All They Hate Those Who Fly.

I Was In Darkness, But I Took Three Steps And Found Myself In Paradise. The First Step Was A Good Thought, The Second, A Good Word; And The Third, A Good Deed.

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Whoever Is Related To Me In The Height Of His Aspirations Will Experience Veritable Ecstasies Of Learning; For I Come From Heights That No Bird Ever Reached In Its Flight, I Know Abysses Into Which No Foot Ever Strayed.

Nothing Has Been Purchased More Dearly Than The Little Bit Of Reason And Sense Of Freedom Which Now Constitutes Our Pride.

Almost Two Thousand Years, And No New God!

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