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Because We Have For Millenia Made Moral, Aesthetic, Religious Demands On The World, Looked Upon It With Blind Desire, Passion Or Fear, And Abandoned Ourselves To The Bad Habits Of Illogical Thinking, This World Has Gradually Become So Marvelously Variegated, Frightful, Meaningful, Soulful, It Has Acquired Color - But We Have Been The Colorists: It Is The Human Intellect That Has Made Appearances Appear And Transported Its Erroneous Basic Conceptions Into Things.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Because We Have For Millenia Made Moral, Aesthetic, Religious Demands On The World, Looked Upon It With Blind Desire, Passion Or Fear, And Abandoned Ourselves To The Bad Habits Of Illogical Thinking, This World Has Gradually Become So Marvelously Variegated, Frightful, Meaningful, Soulful, It Has Acquired Color - But We Have Been The Colorists: It Is The Human Intellect That Has Made Appearances Appear And Transported Its Erroneous Basic Conceptions Into Things.

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If You Buy The Why, The How Is Infinitely Bearable

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Whoever Has Overthrown An Existing Law Of Custom Has Always First Been Accounted A Bad Man: But When, As Did Happen, The Law Could Not Afterwards Be Reinstated And This Fact Was Accepted, The Predicate Gradually Changed; - History Treats Almost Exclusively Of These Bad Men Who Subsequently Became Good Men!

The Moment Germany Rises As A Great Power, France Gains A New Importance As A Cultural Power.

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There Is Nothing That Has Caused Me To Meditate More On Plato's Secrecy And Sphinx-like Nature, Than The Happily Preserved Petit Fait That Under The Pillow Of His Death-bed There Was Found No 'bible,' Nor Anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, Or Platonic - But A Book Of Aristophanes. How Could Even Plato Have Endured Life - A Greek Life Which He Repudiated - Without An Aristophanes!

Women Want To Serve, And This Is Where Their Happiness Lies: But The Free Spirit Does Not Want To Be Served, And This Is Where Hishappiness Lies.

Perhaps I Know Best Why It Is Man Alone Who Laughs; He Alone Suffers So Deeply That He Had To Invent Laughter.

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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There Is Not Enough Religion In The World Even To Destroy Religion.

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Sometimes We Owe A Friend To The Lucky Circumstance That We Give Him No Cause For Envy.

Pity Is The Most Agreeable Feeling Among Those Who Have Little Pride And No Prospects Of Great Conquests.

If One Uses One's Intellect To Become Master Over The Unlimited Emotions, It May Produce A Sorry And Diversionary Effect Upon The Intellect.

Do You Suppose That Sacrifice Is The Hallmark Of Moral Action?--just Stop To Consider Whether Sacrifice Is Not Involved In Every Action That Is Done With Deliberation, The Worst As Well As The Best.

Under Peaceful Conditions A Warlike Man Sets Upon Himself.

We Should Turn Our Death Into A Celebration, Even If Only Out Of A Malice Towards Life: Towards The Woman Who Wants To Leave--us!

This Tremendous Event Is Still On Its Way, Still Wandering; It Has Not Yet Reached The Ears Of Men. Lightning And Thunder Require Time; The Light On The Stars Requires Time; Deeds Though Done, Still Require Time To Be Seen And Heard. This Deed Is Still More Distant From Them Than The Most Distant Stars - And Yet They Have Done It Themselves.

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One Must Not Let Oneself Be Misled: They Say 'judge Not!' But They Send To Hell Everything That Stands In Their Way.

The Vain.- We Are Like Shop Windows In Which We Are Continually Arranging, Concealing Or Illuminating The Supposed Qualities Other Ascribe To Us - In Order To Deceive Ourselves.

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Enjoying Praise Is In Some People Merely A Civility Of The Heart--and Just The Opposite Of A Vanity Of The Spirit.

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

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A Reader Is Doubly Guilty Of Bad Manners Against An Author When He Praises His Second Book At The Expense Of His First (or Vice Versa) And Then Expects The Author To Be Grateful For What He Has Done.

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

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

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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.

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Liberal Institutions Straightway Cease Being Liberal The Moment They Are Soundly Established: Once This Is Attained, No More Grievous And More Thorough Enemies Of Freedom Exist Than Liberal Institutions.

I Hate Who Steals My Solitude, Without Really Offer Me In Exchange Company.

How Far Is Truth Susceptible Of Embodiment? That Is The Question, That Is The Experiment.

A Life Without Music Is An Error.

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They Call You Heartless; But You Have A Heart And I Love You For Being Ashamed To Show It.

I Might Believe In The Redeemer If His Followers Looked More Redeemed.

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

Our Salvation Lies Not In Knowing, But In Creating!

God Is A Thought Who Makes Crooked All That Is Straight.

Some Are Made Modest By Great Praise, Others Insolent.

In Every Party There Is One Person Who, Through His Dotingly Credulous Enunciation Of Party Principles, Incites The Other Members To Defection.

You Shall Not Steal! You Shall Not Kill! Such Words Were Once Called Holy; Before Them People Bowrd Their Knees And Heads, And Removed Their Shoes. But I Ask You: Where Have There Ever Been Better Thieves And Killers In The World Than Such Holy Words Have Been? Is There Not In All Of Life Itself - Robbing And Killing? And When Such Words Were Called Holy, Was Not Truth Itself Thereby - Killed?

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.

My Formula For Happiness: A Yes, A No, A Straight Line, A Goal.

What Destroys A Man More Quickly Than To Work, Think And Feel Without Inner Necessity, Without Any Deep Personal Desire, Without Pleasure - As A Mere Automaton Of Duty?

Do You Want To Have An Easy Life? Then Always Stay With The Herd And Lose Yourself In The Herd.

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Thus I Spoke, More And More Softly; For I Was Afraid Of My Own Thoughts And The Thoughts Behind My Thoughts.

Art Depends Upon The Inexactitude Of Sight.

You Tell Me: 'life Is Hard To Bear.' But If It Were Otherwise Why Should Ou Have Your Pride In The Morning Nad Your Resignation In The Evening?

Ultimately One Loves One's Desires And Not That Which Is Desired.

I Love Him Who Liveth In Order To Know, And Seeketh To Know In Order That The Superman May Hereafter Live. Thus Seeketh He His Own Down-going.

Women Are Constituted In Such A Way That All Truth (regarding Men, Love, Children, Society, The Purpose Of Life) Disgusts Them, And In Such A Way That They Try To Revenge Themselves On Anyone Who Opens Their Eyes.

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?

Time, Space, And Causality Are Only Metaphors Of Knowledge, With Which We Explain Things To Ourselves.

Doing Ill To Those On Whom We Have To Make Our Power Felt; For Pain Is A Far More Sensitive Means For That Purpose Than Pleasure: Pain Always Asks Concerning The Cause, While Pleasure Is Inclined To Keep Within Itself And Not Look Backward.

Live So That Thou Mayest Desire To Live Again - That Is Thy Duty - For In Any Case Thou Wilt Live Again!

I Devote Myself To What I Love The Most, And For This Very Reason I Hesitate To Designate It With Lofty Words: I Do Not Want To Risk Believing That It Is A Sublime Compulsion, A Law, Which I Obey: I Love What I Love The Most Too Much To Wish To Appear To It As One Compelled.

Those Moralists, On The Other Hand, Who, Following In The Footsteps Of Socrates, Offer The Individual A Morality Of Self-control And Temperance As A Means To His Own Advantage, As His Personal Key To Happiness, Are The Exceptions.

I Assess The Power Of A Will By How Much Resistance, Pain, Torture It Endures And Knows How To Turn To Its Advantage.

Do Not Paint A Picture Either Of God Or The Devil On Your Walls: This Will Ruin Both Your Walls And The Atmosphere.

Every Master Has But One Disciple, And That One Becomes Unfaithful To Him, For He Too Is Destined For Master-ship.

Illusions Are Certainly Expensive Amusements; But The Destruction Of Illusions Is Still More Expensive, If Looked Upon As An Amusement, As It Undoubtedly Is By Some People.

The Man Of The Future Who Will Redeem Us Not Only From The Hitherto Reigning Ideal But Also From That Which Was Bound To Grow Out Of It, The Great Nausea, The Will To Nothingness, Nihilism; This Bell Stroke Of Noon And Of The Great Decision That Liberates The Will Again And Restores Its Goal To The Earth And His Hope To Man; This Antichrist And Anti-nihilist; This Victor Over God And Nothingness - He Must Come One Day.

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When A Man Is In Love He Endures More Than At Other Times; He Submits To Everything.

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I Desire That Your Conjectures Should Not Reach Beyond Your Creative Will. Could You Create A God? Then Do Not Speak To Me Of Any Gods.

Everything Good Is Instinct--and, As A Result, Easy, Necessary, Free.

The Enormous Expectation Having To Do With Sexual Love And The Shame Involved In This Expectation Degrades All A Woman's Perspectives From The Start.

The Charm Of The Platonic Mode Of Thought ... Consisted Precisely In The Resistance To The Obvious Evidence Of The Senses.

The Most Unequivocal Sign Of Contempt For Man Is To Regard Everybody Merely As A Means To One's Own Ends, Or Of No Account Whatever.

We Become Aware, However, That All Customs, Even The Hardest, Grow Pleasanter And Milder With Time, And That The Severest Way Of Life May Become A Habit And Therefore A Pleasure.

The Craving For Equality Can Express Itself Either As A Desire To Pull Everyone Down To Our Own Level (by Belittling Them, Excluding Them, Tripping Them Up) Or As A Desire To Raise Ourselves Up Along With Everyone Else (by Acknowledging Them, Helping Them, And Rejoicing In Their Success).

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

We Have To Learn How To Come Out Of Unclean Situations Cleaner Than We Were, And Even How To Wash Ourselves With Dirty Water Whenwe Need To.

The So-called Paradoxes Of An Author, To Which A Reader Takes Exception, Often Exist Not In The Author's Book At All, But Rather In The Reader's Head.

Perhaps No Philosopher Is More Correct Than The Cynic. The Happiness Of The Animal, That Thorough Cynic, Is The Living Proof Of Cynicism.

The Thought Of Suicide Is A Great Source Of Comfort: With It A Calm Passage Is To Be Made Across Many A Bad Night.

What Is Bad? All That Proceeds From Weakness

You Look Up When You Wish To Be Exalted. And I Look Down Because I Am Exalted.

He Who Humbles Himself Wants To Be Exalted.

Courageous, Unconcerned, Scornful, Coercive - So Wisdom Wisheth Us; She Is A Woman, And Ever Loveth Only A Warrior.

To The Mediocre, Mediocrity Is A Form Of Happiness.

Admiration For A Quality Or An Art Can Be So Strong That It Deters Us From Striving To Possess It.

The Tragedy Is That We Cannot Believe The Dogmas Of Religion And Metaphysics If We Have The Strict Methods Of Truth In Heart And Head, But On The Other Hand, We Have Become Through The Development Of Humanity So Tenderly Suffering That We Need The Highest Kind Of Means Of Salvation And Consolation: Whence Arises The Danger That Man May Bleed To Death Through The Truth That He Realises.

The Will To Truth Is Merely The Longing For A Stable World.

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.

Every God-man Created His Own God: And There Is No Worse Enmity On Earth Than That Between Gods.

Objection, Evasion, Joyous Distrust, And Love Of Irony Are Signs Of Health; Everything Absolute Belongs To Pathology.

But Thought Is One Thing, The Deed Is Another, And The Image Of The Deed Still Another: The Wheel Of Causality Does Not Roll Between Them.

All Religions Bear Traces Of The Fact That They Arose During The Intellectual Immaturity Of The Human Race - Before It Had Learned The Obligations To Speak The Truth. Not One Of Them Makes It The Duty Of Its God To Be Truthful And Understandable In His Communications.

I And Me Are Always Too Deeply In Conversation.

Has There Ever Been Anything Filthier On Earth Than The Saints In The Wilderness? Around Them Was Not Only The Devil Loose Around Them- But Also The Swine.

The Love Of Power Is The Demon Of Mankind.

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Zarathustra Was The First To Consider The Fight Of Good And Evil The Very Wheel In The Machinery Of Things: The Transposition Of Morality Into The Metaphysical Realm, As A Force, Cause, And End In Itself, Is His Work. [...] Zarathustra Created This Most Calamitous Error, Morality; Consequently, He Must Also Be The First To Recognize It.

A Nation Usually Renews Its Youth On A Political Sick-bed, And There Finds Again The Spirit Which It Had Gradually Lost In Seeking And Maintaining Power.

One Should Not Go Into Churches If One Wants To Breathe Pure Air.

Certitude Drives People Mad.

The Enjoyment That All Morality Has Given Us To Now And That It Continues To Give Us--and So, What Has Kept It Going Up To Now--lies In Everyone's Right, Without Lengthy Investigation, To Praise And Blame. And Who Could Endure Life Without Praising And Blaming!

Something Might Be True While Being Harmful And Dangerous In The Highest Degree. Indeed, It Might Be A Basic Characteristic Of Existence That Those Who Know It Completely Would Perish, In Which Case The Strength Of A Spirit Should Be Measured According To How Much Of The 'truth' One Could Still Barely Endure- Or To Put It More Clearly, To What Degree One Would Require It To Be Thinned Down, Shrouded, Sweetened, Blunted, Falsified.

Whatever We Think About And Question A Lot Becomes Questionable.

The Patient. The Pine Tree Seems To Listen, The Fir Tree To Wait: And Both Without Impatience: - They Give No Thought To The Little People Beneath Them Devoured By Their Impatience And Their Curiosity.

We Are Always In Our Own Company.

One Who Dresses In Rags That Have Been Washed Clean Dresses Cleanly To Be Sure, But Raggedly Nonetheless.

God Is A Too Palpably Clumsy Answer; An Answer Which Shows A Lack Of Delicacy Towards Us Thinkers-fundamentally, Even A Crude Prohibition To Us: You Shall Not Think!

I Am Not Bigoted Enough For A System-and Not Even For My System.

Those People Have No Real Interest In A Science Who Only Begin To Get Excited About It When They Themselves Have Made Discoveries In It.

Freedom Of Will-that Is The Expression For The Complex State Of Delight Of The Person Exercising Volition, Who Commands And At The Same Time Identifies Himself With The Executor Of The Order-who, As Such, Enjoys Also The Triumph Over Obstacles, But Thinks Within Himself That It Was Really His Own Will That Overcame Them. In This Way The Person Exercising Volition Adds The Feelings Of Delight Of His Successful Executive Instruments, The Useful Underwills Or Under-souls-indeed, Our Body Is But A Social Structure Composed Of Many Souls-to His Feelings Of Delight As Commander.

Not He Is Great Who Can Alter Matter, But He Who Can Alter My State Of Mind.

The Elimination Of The Will Altogether And The Switching Off Of The Emotions All And Sundry, Is Tantamount To The Elimination Of Reason: Intellectual Castration.

They Muddy The Water, To Make It Seem Deep.

What Is Originality? To See Something That Has No Name As Yet And Hence Cannot Be Mentioned Although It Stares Us All In The Face. The Way Men Usually Are, It Takes A Name To Make Something Visible For Them.

Unpleasant, Even Dangerous, Qualities Can Be Found In Every Nation And Every Individual: It Is Cruel To Demand That The Jew Be An Exception. In Him, These Qualities May Even Be Dangerous And Revolting To An Unusual Degree; And Perhaps The Young Stock-exchange Jew Is Altogether The Most Disgusting Invention Of Mankind.

Triumph Depends On A Roll Of Fate's Dice; The Ultimate Prize Is A Place In Heaven.

Beware In The Presence Of Cats: They Never Give, They Do Not Even Retaliate--they Only Reply, And Purr In Doing So.

Without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake... I Would Only Believe In A God Who Knew How To Dance.

I Teach You The Overman. Man Is Something That Shall Be Overcome. What Have You Done To Overcome Him? ... The Time Has Come For Man To Set Himself A Goal. The Time Has Come To Plant The Seed To His Highest Hope.

The Best Weapon Against An Enemy Is Another Enemy.

We Want To Be Poets Of Our Life First Of All In The Smallest Most Everyday Matters.

It Is Only Those Who Know How To Feel That "this Is Not Good" Who Devise Improvements.

Convictions Are Prisons.

I Love Him Who Is Of A Free Spirit And A Free Heart: Thus Is His Head Only The Bowels Of His Heart; His Heart, However, Causeth His Down-going.

Full Is The Earth Of The Superfluous; Marred Is Life By The Many-too-many. May They Be Decoyed Out Of This Life By The "life Eternal"!

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