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All Beings So Far Have Created Something Beyond Themselves; And Do You Want To Be The Ebb Of This Great Flood And Even Go Back To The Beasts Rather Than Overcome Man? What Is The Ape To Man? A Laughingstock Or A Painful Embarrassment. And Man Shall Be Just That For The Overman: A Laughingstock Or A Painful Embarrassment.

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All Beings So Far

Friedrich Nietzsche

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All Beings So Far Have Created Something Beyond Themselves; And Do You Want To Be The Ebb Of This Great Flood And Even Go Back To The Beasts Rather Than Overcome Man? What Is The Ape To Man? A Laughingstock Or A Painful Embarrassment. And Man Shall Be Just That For The Overman: A Laughingstock Or A Painful Embarrassment.

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Fanatics Are Picturesque, Mankind Would Rather See Gestures Than Listen To Reasons.

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A Great Value Of Antiquity Lies In The Fact That Its Writings Are The Only Ones That Modern Men Still Read With Exactness.

The Most Intelligent Men, Like The Strongest, Find Their Happiness Where Others Would Find Only Disaster: In The Labyrinth, In Being Hard With Themselves And With Others, In Effort; Their Delight Is Self-mastery; In Them Asceticism Becomes Second Nature, A Necessity, As Instinct.

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Happiness: Being Able To Forget Or, To Express In A More Learned Fashion.

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.

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.

The Weak And The Botched Shall Perish: First Principle Of Our Charity.

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We Would Not Let Ourselves Be Burned To Death For Our Opinions: We Are Not Sure Enough Of Them For That.

The Child Is Innocence And Forgetting, A New Beginning, A Game, A Wheel Rolling On Its Own, A Prime Movement, A Sacred Yes.

Has A Woman Who Knew She Was Well-dressed Ever Caught A Cold?

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With The Unknown, One Is Confronted With Danger, Discomfort, And Care; The First Instinct Is To Abolish These Painful States. First Principle: Any Explanation Is Better Than None. . . . The Causal Instinct Is Thus Conditional Upon, And Excited By, The Feeling Of Fear. The "why?" Shall, If At All Possible, Not Give The Cause For Its Own Sake So Much As For A Particular Kind Of Cause -- A Cause That Is Comforting, Liberating, And Relieving.

Men Who Think Deeply Appear To Be Comedians In Their Dealings With Others Because They Always Have To Feign Superficiality In Order To Be Understood.

Industriousness And Conscientiousness Are Often At Odds, Because Industriousness Wants To Pick The Still Sour Fruit From The Tree,while Conscientiousness Lets It Hang There Too Long, Until It Falls And Bruises.

We Can Speak Very Much To The Purpose And Yet In Such A Way That The Whole World Cries Out In Contradiction: Namely, When We Are Not Speaking To The Whole World.

We Labour At Our Daily Work More Ardently And Thoughtlessly Than Is Necessary To Sustain Our Life Because It Is Even More Necessary Not To Have Leisure To Stop And Think. Haste Is Universal Because Everyone Is In Flight From Himself.

Everything The State Says Is A Lie, And Everything It Has It Has Stolen.

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[heraclitus] Concluded That Coming-to-be Itself Could Not Be Anything Evil Or Unjust.

A Real Fox Calls Sour Not Only Those Grapes That He Cannot Reach But Also Those That He Has Reached And Taken Away From Others.

Success Has Always Been A Great Liar.

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He Who Obeys, Does Not Listen To Himself!

Mystical Explanations Are Thought To Be Deep; The Truth Is That They Are Not Even Shallow.

We Are, All Of Us, Growing Volcanoes That Approach The Hour Of Their Eruption, But How Near Or Distant That Is, Nobody Knows- Not Even God.

[heraclitus' Language] Dispenses With Lightness And Artificial Decoration, Foremost Out Of Disgust For Humanity And Out Of [his Own] Defiant Feeling.

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.

What Is The Truth, But A Lie Agreed Upon.

What Is The Strongest Cure?--victory.

Everyone Wants To Be Foremost In This Future-and Yet Death And The Stillness Of Death Are The Only Things Certain And Common To All In This Future! How Strange That This Sole Thing That Is Certain And Common To All, Exercises Almost No Influence On Men, And That They Are The Furthest From Regarding Themselves As The Brotherhood Of Death! It Makes Me Happy To See That Men Do Not Want To Think At All Of The Idea Of Death!

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There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations.

The Refinement Of Shame. People Are Not Ashamed To Think Something Foul, But They Are Ashamed When They Think These Foul Thoughts Are Attributed To Them.

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I Love Him Whose Soul Is Deep Even In The Wounding, And May Succumb Through A Small Matter: Thus Goeth He Willingly Over The Bridge.

In A Seriously Intended Intellectual Emancipation A Person's Mute Passions And Cravings Also Hope To Find Their Advantage.

One Should Steal Only Where One Cannot Rob.

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However Modest One May Be In One's Demand For Intellectual Cleanliness, One Cannot Help Feeling, When Coming Into Contact With The New Testament, A Kind Of Inexpressible Discomfiture: For The Unchecked Impudence With Which The Least Qualified Want To Raise Their Voice On The Greatest Problems, And Even Claim To Be Judges Of Such Things, Surpasses All Measure. The Shameless Levity With Which The Most Intractable Problems (life, World, God, Purpose Of Life) Are Spoken Of, As If They Were Not Problems At All But Simply Things That These Little Bigots Knew!

In Being Wildly Natural We Recover Best From Being Unnatural, From Being Spiritual.

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.

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).

Thinking About Suicide Is A Potent Consolation: It Helps Us To Get Through Many A Bad Night.

These Four, However, Seek The Freedom Of Their Will At The Very Point Where They Are Most Securely Chained. It Is As If The Silkworm Sought Freedom Of Will In Spinning. What Is The Reason?

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But Like Infection Is The Petty Thought: It Creeps And Hides, And Wants To Be Nowhere--until The Whole Body Is Decayed And Withered By The Petty Infection... Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

The Errors Of Great Men Are Venerable Because They Are More Fruitful Than The Truths Of Little Men.

Out Of Love, Women Become Entirely What It Is That They Are In The Imaginations Of The Men Who Love Them.

Morality Is Neither Rational Nor Absolute Nor Natural. World Has Known Many Moral Systems, Each Of Which Advances Claims Universality; All Moral Systems Are Therefore Particular, Serving A Specific Purpose For Their Propagators Or Creators, And Enforcing A Certain Regime That Disciplines Human Beings For Social Life By Narrowing Our Perspectives And Limiting Our Horizons.

Whatever Is Gold Does Not Glitter. A Gentle Radiance Belongs To The Noblest Metal.

Thou Seekest Disciples? Then Thou Seekest Ciphers.

Our Body Is Simply A Social Structure Made Of Many Souls.

Is Man God's Biggest Blunder, Or Is Man's God?

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

Even Today Many Educated People Think That The Victory Of Christianity Over Greek Philosophy Is A Proof Of The Superior Truth Of The Former - Although In This Case It Was Only The Coarser And More Violent That Conquered The More Spiritual And Delicate. So Far As Superior Truth Is Concerned, It Is Enough To Observe That The Awakening Sciences Have Allied Themselves Point By Point With The Philosophy Of Epicurus, But Point By Point Rejected Christianity.

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.

The Destiny Of Mankind Is Arranged For Happy Moments Every Life Has Such But Not For Happy Times.

If You Have An Enemy, Do Not Requite Him Evil With Good, For That Would Put Him To Shame. Rather Prove That He Did You Some Good.

Curiosity Creeps Into The Houses Of The Unfortunate And The Needy Under The Name Of Duty Or Of Pity.

Joy Wants The Eternity Of All Things, Wants Deep, Wants Deep Eternity.

Whenever The Truth Is Uncovered, The Artist Will Always Cling With Rapt Gaze To What Still Remains Covering Even After Such Uncovering; But The Theoretical Man Enjoys And Finds Satisfaction In The Discarded Covering And Finds The Highest Object Of His Pleasure In The Process Of An Ever Happy Uncovering That Succeeds Through His Own Efforts.

All Mankind Is Divided, As It Was At All Times And Is Still, Into Slaves And Freemen.

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.

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

Faith, Indeed, Has Up To The Present Not Been Able To Move Real Mountains, Although I Do Not Know Who Assumed That It Could. But It Can Put Mountains Where There Are None.

When A Man Reaches His Maturity In Understanding And In Years, The Feeling Comes Over Him That His Father Was Wrong To Beget Him.

Where One Despises, One Cannot Wage War.

Buddhism Is A Hundred Times As Realistic As Christianity It Is Part Of Its Living Heritage That It Is Able To Face Problems Objectively And Coolly; It Is The Product Of Long Centuries Of Philosophical Speculation.

Such A Man As Instinctively Feeds On Pure Ambrosia And Leaves Alone The Indigestible In Things.

To Produce Music Is Also In A Sense To Produce Children.

Forgetting: That Is A Divine Capacity. And Whoever Aspires To The Heights And Wants To Fly Must Cast Off Much That Is Heavy And Make Himself Light--i Call It A Divine Capacity For Lightness.

To Regard States Of Distress In General As An Objection, As Something Which Must Be Abolished Is The Greatest Nonsense On Earth; Having The Most Disastrous Consequences, Fatally Stupid- Almost As Stupid As A Wish To Abolish Bad Weather - Out Of Pity For The Poor.

O, What Nowadays Does Science Not Conceal! How Much, At Least, It Is Meant To Conceal!

When Virtue Has Slept It Will Arise More Vigorous.

The Ordinary Man Is As Courageous And Invulnerable As A Hero When He Does Not Recognize Any Danger, When He Has No Eyes To See It.conversely, The Hero's Only Vulnerable Spot Is On His Back, And So Exactly Where He Has No Eyes.

Tragedy Is Dead! Poetry Itself Died With It! Away, Away With You, Puny, Stunted Imitators! Away With You To Hades, And Eat Your Fill Of The Old Masters' Crumbs!

A Man As He Ought To Be: That Sounds To Us As Insipid As "a Tree As It Ought To Be.

... Art Approaches As A Saving Sorceress, Expert At Healing. She Alone Knows How To Turn These Nauseous Thoughts About The Horror Or Absurdity Of Existence Into Notions With Which One Can Live.

Many A Man Fails As An Original Thinker Simply Because His Memory It Too Good.

From Passions Grow Opinions; Intellectual Laziness Lets These Harden Into Convictions.

The Truth Is Ugly: We Have Art So As Not To Perish From The Truth.

We Do Not By Any Means Think It Desirable That The Kingdom Of Righteousness And Peace Should Be Established On Earth (because Under Any Circumstances It Would Be The Kingdom Of The Profoundest Mediocrity And Chinaism); We Rejoice In All Men, Who Like Ourselves Love Danger, War And Adventure, Who Do Not Make Compromises, Nor Let Themselves Be Captured, Conciliated And Stunted; We Count Ourselves Among The Conquerors; We Ponder Over The Need Of A New Order Of Things, Even Of A New Slavery For Every Strengthening And Elevation Of The Type "man" Also Involves A New Form Of Slavery.

Lying Very Still And Thinking Very Little Is The Most Inexpensive Medicine For All The Sicknesses Of The Soul, And When Administered With Good Intentions It Grows More And More Pleasant With Each Passing Hour.

Wherever I Found A Living Creature, There I Found The Will To Power.

His (the Theologian) Basic Instinct Of Self Preservation Forbids Him To Respect Reality At Any Point Or Even To Let It Get A Word In.

Follow In The Footsteps Of Your Fathers' Virtue! How Could You Hope To Climb High Unless Your Fathers' Will Climbs With You?

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.

Is Not Wounded Vanity The Mother Of All Tragedies?

But Say, My Brothers, What Can The Child Do That Even The Lion Could Not Do? Why Must The Preying Lion Still Become A Child? The Child Is Innocence And Forgetting, A New Beginning, A Sacred 'yes.' For The Game Of Creation, My Brothers, A Sacred 'yes' Is Needed: The Spirit Now Wills His Own Will, And He Who Had Been Lost To The World Now Conquers His Own World.

The Purpose Of Punishment Is To Improve Those Who Do The Punishing--that Is The Final Recourse Of Those Who Support Punishment.

Against Boredom Even Gods Struggle In Vain.

The World Is A Work Of Art That Gives Birth To Itself.

Belief In Form, But Disbelief In Content - That's What Makes An Aphorism Charming.

The Grand Style Arises When Beauty Wins A Victory Over The Monstrous.

It Was Christianity, With Its Heartfelt Resentment Against Life, That First Made Something Unclean Of Sexuality: It Threw Filth On The Origin, On The Essential Fact Of Our Life.

On The Heights It Is Warmer Than People In The Valley Suppose, Especially In Winter. The Thinker Recognizes The Full Import Of This Simile.

The Sick Are The Greatest Danger For The Healthy; It Is Not From The Strongest That Harm Comes To The Strong, But From The Weakest.

So Far There Has Been No Philosopher In Whose Hands Philosophy Has Not Grown Into An Apology For Knowledge; On This Point, At Least, Every One Is An Optimist, That The Greatest Usefulness Must Be Ascribed To Knowledge. They Are All Tyrannized Over By Logic, And This Is Optimism In Its Essence.

The Great Wars Of The Present Age Are The Effects Of The Study Of History.

The Believer In Magic And Miracles Reflects On How To Impose A Law On Nature--: And, In Brief, The Religious Cult Is The Outcome Of This Reflection.

Learning From One's Enemies Is The Best Way To Love Them, For It Puts One Into A Grateful Mood Toward Them.

In Order To Acquire Intellect One Must Need It. One Loses It When It Is No Longer Necessary.

I Am One Thing, My Writings Are Another.

That Every Will Must Consider Every Other Will Its Equal Would Be A Principle Hostile To Life, An Agent Of The Dissolution And Destruction Of Man, An Attempt To Assassinate The Future Of Man, A Sign Of Weariness, A Secret Path To Nothingness.

Some Men Are Born Posthumously.

A Little Health Now And Again Is The Ailing Person's Best Remedy.

Every Society Has A Tendency To Reduce It's Opponents To Caricatures.

They Muddy The Water, To Make It Seem Deep.

The Parasites Live Where The Great Have Little Secret Sores.

In A Friend One Should Have Ones Best Enemy. You Should Be Closest To Him With Your Heart When You Resist Him.

You May Lie With Your Mouth, But With The Mouth You Make As You Do So You None The Less Tell The Truth.

Distrust All In Whom The Impulse To Punish Is Powerful.

God Created Woman. And Boredom Did Indeed Cease From That Moment-but Many Other Things Ceased As Well!

Most Of The Time In Married Life Is Taken Up By Talk.

A Little Wisdom Is Indeed Possible; But This Blessed Security Have I Found In All Things, That They Prefer--to Dance On The Feet Of Chance.

The Gilded Sheath Of Pity Sometimes Covers The Dagger Of Envy.

Yet For All That, There Is Nothing In Me Of A Founder Of A Religion--religions Are Affairs Of The Rabble; I Find It Necessary To Wash My Hands After I Have Come Into Contact With Religious People.

Our Destiny Exercises Its Influence Over Us Even When, As Yet, We Have Not Learned Its Nature: It Is Our Future That Lays Down The Law Of Our Today

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