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Behind Your Thoughts And Feelings, My Brother, There Stands A Mighty Ruler. An Unknown Sage - Whose Name Is Self. In Yourt Body He Dwells; He Is Your Body. There Is More Reason In Your Body Than In Your Best Wisdom.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Behind Your Thoughts And Feelings, My Brother, There Stands A Mighty Ruler. An Unknown Sage - Whose Name Is Self. In Yourt Body He Dwells; He Is Your Body. There Is More Reason In Your Body Than In Your Best Wisdom.

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What Is The Strongest Cure?--victory.

A Soul Which Knows That It Is Loved, But Does Not Itself Love, Betrays Its Sediment: Its Dregs Come Up.

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Good Manners Disappear In Proportion As The Influence Of A Court And An Exclusive Aristocracy Lessens; This Decrease Can Be Plainly Observed From Decade To Decade By Those Who Have An Eye For Public Behavior, Which Grows Visibly.

I Conjure You, My Brethren, To Remain Faithful To Earth, And Do Not Believe Those Who Speak Unto You Of Super Terrestrial Hopes! Poisoners They Are, Whether They Know It Or Not.

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If A Woman Possesses Manly Virtues, She Is To Be Run Away From; And If She Does Not Possess Them, She Runs Away Herself.

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Liberalism Is The Transformation Of Mankind Into Cattle.

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I And Me Are Always Too Deeply In Conversation.

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

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

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Few Serve Truth In Truth Because Only Few Have The Pure Will To Be Just, And Of Those Again Very Few Have The Strength To Be Just.

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Childhood And Youth Are Ends In Themselves, Not Stages.

Which Is It? Is Man Only A Blunder Of God? Or Is God Only A Blunder Of Man?

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Was Mich Nicht Zugrunde Richtet, Macht Mich Starker.

Compassion For The Friend Should Conceal Itself Under A Hard Shell.

A Bad Conscience Is Easier To Cope With Than A Bad Reputation.

The Most Fundamental Form Of Human Stupidity Is Forgetting What We Were Trying To Do In The First Place.

Once Spirit Was God, Then It Became Man, And Now It Is Even Becoming Mob.

Even Great Spirits Have Only Their Five-fingers' Breadth Of Experience - Just Beyond It Their Thinking Ceases And Their Endless Empty Space And Stupidity Begins.

He Who Cannot Give Anything Away Cannot Feel Anything Either.

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When One Thinks Profusely And Cleverly, Not Only His Face But His Body Too Takes On A Clever Appearance.

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

Here The Ways Of Men Divide. If You Wish To Strive For Peace Of Soul And Happiness, Then Believe; If You Wish To Be A Disciple Of Truth, Then Inquire.

Whoever Does Not Have A Good Father Should Procure One.

The Disgust With Dirt Can Be So Great That It Keeps Us From Cleaning Ourselves--from "justifying" Ourselves.

A Certain Sense Of Cruelty Towards Oneself And Others Is Christian; Hatred Of Those Who Think Differently; The Will To Persecute. Mortal Hostility Against The Masters Of The Earth, Against The 'noble', That Is Also Christian; Hatred Of Mind, Of Pride, Courage, Freedom, Libertinage Of Mind, Is Christian; Hatred Of The Senses, Of Joy In General, Is Christian.

I Speak And The Child Plays: Who Can Be More Serious Than We Are?

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

And Like A Wind Shall I One Day Blow Amongst Them And With My Spirit Take Away Their Soul's Breath: Thus My Future Wills It.

We Fear Our Neighbor's Hostile Mood Because We Are Afraid That This Mood Will Lead Him To Penetrate Our Secrets.

What Is Bad? -everything That Arises From Weakness.

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).

I Want To Teach Men The Sense Of Their Existence, Which Is The Superman, The Lightning Out Of The Dark Cloud Man.

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.

Without Passions You Have No Experience Whatever.

If There Is Something To Pardon In Everything, There Is Also Something To Condemn.

The Apprentice And The Master Love The Master In Different Ways.

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.

Having A Talent Is Not Enough: One Must Also Have Your Permission To Have It--right, My Friends?

Priests ... These Turkey-cocks Of God.

Can An Ass Be Tragic?--to Perish Under A Burden That One Can Neither Bear Nor Cast Off? The Case Of The Philosopher.

The Truthful Man Ends Up Realizing That He Always Lies.

The Flame Is Not As Bright To Itself As It Is To Those It Illuminates: So Too The Sage.

Ultimately, It Is The Desire, Not The Desired, That We Love.

In His Heart Every Man Knows Quite Well That, Being Unique, He Will Be In The World Only Once And That No Imaginable Chance Will For A Second Time Gather Together Into A Unity So Strangely Variegated An Assortment As He Is: He Knows It But Hides It Like A Bad Conscience.

What Then Is Truth? A Movable Host Of Metaphors, Metonymies, And Anthropomorphisms: In Short, A Sum Of Human Relations Which Have Been Poetically And Rhetorically Intensified, Transferred, And Embellished, And Which, After Long Usage, Seem To A People To Be Fixed, Canonical, And Binding. Truths Are Illusions Which We Have Forgotten Are Illusions — They Are Metaphors That Have Become Worn Out And Have Been Drained Of Sensuous Force.

We Often Contradict An Opinion For No Other Reason Than That We Do Not Like The Tone In Which It Is Expressed.

On The Mountains Of Truth You Can Never Climb In Vain: Either You Will Reach A Point Higher Up Today, Or You Will Be Training Your Powers So That You Will Be Able To Climb Higher Tomorrow.

Verily, I Do Not Like Them, The Merciful Who Feel Blessed In Their Pity: They Are Lacking Too Much In Shame. If I Must Pity, At Least I Do Not Want It Known; And If I Do Pity, It Is Preferably From A Distance.

Life Is Hard To Bear: But Do Not Affect To Be So Delicate! We Are All Of Us Fine Sumpter Asses And Assesses.

He Who Does Not Need To Lie Is Proud Of Not Being A Liar.

In His Lonely Solitude, The Solitary Man Feeds Upon Himself; In The Thronging Multitude, The Many Feed Upon Him. Now Choose.

You Want To Make Him Interested In You? Then Pretend To Be Embarrassed In His Presence-

You Must Await Your Thirst And Allow It To Become Complete: Otherwise You Will Never Discover Your Spring, Which Can Never Be Anyone Else's!

The Mother Of Excess Is Not Joy But Joylessness.

A Good Writer Possesses Not Only His Own Spirit But Also The Spirit Of His Friends.

Some Mothers Need Happy Children; Others Need Unhappy Ones-otherwise They Cannot Prove Their Maternal Virtues.

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.

Mastery Has Been Achieved When One Neither Makes A Mistake Nor Hesitates In The Performance.

Everything Goes, Everything Comes Back; Eternally Rolls The Wheel Of Being. Everything Dies, Everything Blossoms Again; Eternally Runs The Year Of Being. Everything Breaks, Everything Is Joined Anew; Eternally The Same House Of Being Is Built. Everything Parts, Everything Greets Every Other Thing Again; Eternally The Ring Of Being Remains Faithful To Itself. In Every Now, Being Begins; Round Every Here Rolls The Sphere There. The Center Is Everywhere. Bent Is The Path Of Eternity.

I Love Those Who Do Not First Seek A Reason Beyond The Stars For Going Down And Being Sacrifices, But Sacrifice Themselves To The Earth, That The Earth Of The Superman May Hereafter Arrive.

Do Ask Yourself Why You, The Individual, Exist, And If You Can Get No Other Answer Try For Once To Justify The Meaning Of Your Existence As It Were A Posteriori By Setting Before Yourself An Aim, A Goal, A 'to This End', An Exalted And Noble 'to This End'.

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One Can Promise Actions, But Not Feelings, For The Latter Are Involuntary. He Who Promises To Love Forever Or Hate Forever Or Be Forever Faithful To Someone Is Promising Something That Is Not In His Power.

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.

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.

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.

If Virtue Goes To Sleep, It Will Be More Vigorous When It Awakes.

A Man Who Has Depths In His Shame Meets His Destiny And His Delicate Decisions Upon Paths Which Few Ever Reach . . .

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?

That The World Is Not The Embodiment Of An Eternal Rationality Can Be Conclusively Proved By The Fact That The Piece Of The Worldthat We Know--i Mean Our Human Reason--is Not So Very Rational. And If It Is Not Eternally And Completely Wise And Rational, Then The Rest Of The World Will Not Be Either; Here The Conclusion A Minori Ad Majus, A Parte Ad Totum Applies, And Does So With Decisive Force.

How Much Disgruntled Heaviness, Lameness, Dampness, How Much Beer Is There In The German Intelligence.

I Have Forgotten My Umbrella.

Close Beside My Knowledge Lies My Black Ignorance.

One Should Steal Only Where One Cannot Rob.

In Order For Once To Get A Glimpse Of Our European Morality From A Distance, In Order To Compare It With Other Earlier Or Future Moralities, One Must Do As The Traveller Who Wants To Know The Height Of The Towers Of A City: He Leaves The City.

Thus The Man Who Is Responsive To Artistic Stimuli Reacts To The Reality Of Dreams As Does The Philosopher To The Reality Of Existence; He Observes Closely, And He Enjoys His Observation: For It Is Out Of These Images That He Interprets Life, Out Of These Processes That He Trains Himself For Life.

Men Use A New Lesson Or Experience Later On As A Ploughshare Or Perhaps Also As A Weapon; Women At Once Make It Into An Ornament.

Whoever Possesses Abundant Joy Must Be A Good Man: But He Is Probably Not The Cleverest Man, Although He Achieves Exactly What It Is That The Cleverest Man Strives With All His Cleverness To Achieve.

Men Were Considered "free" Only So That They Might Be Considered Guilty - Could Be Judged And Punished: Consequently, Every Act Had To Be Considered As Willed, And The Origin Of Every Act Had To Be Considered As Lying Within The Consciousness (and Thus The Most Fundamental Psychological Deception Was Made The Principle Of Psychology Itself).

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

I Overcame Myself, The Sufferer; I Carried My Own Ashes To The Mountains; I Invented A Brighter Flame For Myself.

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

Without The Perpetual Counterfeiting Of The Universe By Number, Man Could Not Continue To Live

Without Art We Would Be Nothing But Foreground And Live Entirely In The Spell Of That Perspective Which Makes What Is Closest At Hand And Most Vulgar Appear As If It Were Vast, And Reality Itself.

It Has Therewith Come To Be Recognized That The History Of Moral Valuations Is At The Same Time The History Of An Error, The Error Of Responsibility, Which Is Based Upon The Error Of The Freedom Of Will.

When The Gratitude That Many Owe To One Discards All Modesty, Then There Is Fame.

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

To The Mediocre, Mediocrity Is A Form Of Happiness.

Those Who Are Bent On Revolutionizing Society May Be Divided Into Those Who Seek Something For Themselves Thereby And Those Who Seek Something For Their Children And Grandchildren.

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

The Growth Of Wisdom May Be Gauged Exactly By The Diminution Of Ill-temper.

Foolish Is My Happiness, And Foolish Things Will It Speak: It Is Still Too Young—so Have Patience With It!

In Architecture The Pride Of Man, His Triumph Over Gravitation, His Will To Power, Assume A Visible Form. Architecture Is A Sort Of Oratory Of Power By Means Of Forms.

... 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.

Nothing Seems To Me To Be Rarer Today Then Genuine Hypocrisy. I Greatly Suspect That This Plant Finds The Mild Atmosphere Of Our Culture Unendurable. Hypocrisy Has Its Place In The Ages Of Strong Belief: In Which Even When One Is Compelled To Exhibit A Different Belief One Does Not Abandon The Belief One Already Has.

I Have Somehow Something Like "influence" ... In The Anti-semitic Correspondence ... My Name Is Mentioned In Almost Every Issue. Zarathustra ... Has Charmed The Anti-semites; There Is A Special Anti-semitic Interpretation Of It That Made Me Laugh Very Much.

Be Your Self! All You Are Now Doing, Thinking, Desiring, Is Not You Yourself.

Existence Begins In Every Instant.

As Is Well Known, The Priests Are The Most Evil Enemies—but Why? Because They Are The Most Impotent. It Is Because Of Their Impotence That In Them Hatred Grows To Monstrous And Uncanny Proportions, To The Most Spiritual And Poisonous Kind Of Hatred. The Truly Great Haters In World History Have Always Been Priests; Likewise The Most Ingenious Haters: Other Kinds Of Spirit Hardly Come Into Consideration When Compared With The Spirit Of Priestly Vengefulness.

There Are Few Pains So Grievous As To Have Seen, Divined, Or Experienced How An Exceptional Man Has Missed His Way And Deteriorated

Every Word Is A Prejudice.

There Are Two Types Of Genius; One Which Above All Begets And Wants To Beget, And Another Which Prefers Being Fertilized And Giving Birth.

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