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Books That Teach Us To Dance: There Are Writers Who, By Portraying The Impossible As Possible, And By Speaking Of Morality And Genius As If Both Were High-spirited Freedom, As If Man Were Rising Up On Tiptoe And Simply Had To Dance Out Of Inner Pleasure.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Books That Teach Us To Dance: There Are Writers Who, By Portraying The Impossible As Possible, And By Speaking Of Morality And Genius As If Both Were High-spirited Freedom, As If Man Were Rising Up On Tiptoe And Simply Had To Dance Out Of Inner Pleasure.

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You Say 'i' And You Are Proud Of This Word. But Greater Than This- Although You Will Not Believe In It - Is Your Body And Its Great Intelligence, Which Does Not Say 'i' But Performs 'i'.

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.

He Who Possesseth Little Is So Much The Less Possessed. Blessed Be Moderate Poverty!

The Christian Faith From The Beginning, Is Sacrifice The Sacrifice Of All Freedom, All Pride, All Self-confidence Of Spirit, It Is At The Same Time Subjection, Self-derision, And Self-mutilation.

Self Confidence

Great Indebtedness Does Not Make Men Grateful, But Vengeful; And If A Little Charity Is Not Forgotten, It Turns Into A Gnawing Worm.

A Declaration Of War On The Masses By Higher Men Is Needed! ... Everything That Makes Soft And Effeminate, That Serves The End Of The People Or The Feminine, Works In Favor Of Universal Suffrage, I.e. The Domination Of The Inferior Men. But We Should Take Reprisal And Bring This Whole Affair To Light And The Bar Of Judgment.

It Seems To Me That To Take A Book Of Mine Into His Hands Is One Of The Rarest Distinctions That Anyone Can Confer Upon Himself. I Even Assume That He Removes His Shoes When He Does So-not To Speak Of Boots.

Your Educators Can Only Be Your Liberators.

You Who Hate The Jews So, Why Did You Adopt Their Religion?

You Are Rewarding A Teacher Poorly If You Remain Always A Pupil.

Morality In Europe Today Is Herd-morality

He Who Wills Believes With A Fair Amount Of Certainty That Will And Action Are Somehow One; He Ascribes The Success, The Carrying Out Of The Willing, To The Will Itself, And Thereby Enjoys An Increase Of The Sensation Of Power Which Accompanies All Success.

There Are No Moral Phenomena At All, But Only A Moral Interpretation Of Phenomena.

What Is More Harmful Than Any Vice? Practical Sympathy And Pity For All The Failures And All The Weak : Christianity.

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

The Purpose Of Criminal Law Is To Punish The Enemies Of Those In Power.

But This People Has Deliberately Made Itself Stupid, For Nearly A Millennium: Nowhere Have The Two Great European Narcotics, Alcohol And Christianity, Been Abused More Dissolutely.

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.

Experience, As A Desire For Experience, Does Not Come Off. We Must Not Study Ourselves While Having An Experience.

Modern Marriage Has Lost Its Meaning--consequently It Is Being Abolished.

Whoever Gives Advice To A Sick Person Acquires A Feeling Of Superiority Over Him, Whether The Advice Be Accepted Or Rejected.

No One Talks More Passionately About His Rights Than He Who In The Depths Of His Soul Doubts Whether He Has Any

You Have Your Way. I Have My Way. As For The Right Way, The Correct Way, And The Only Way, It Does Not Exist.

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

We Are Doubly Willing To Jump Into The Water After Some One Who Has Fallen In, If There Are People Present Who Have Not The Courage To Do So.

The Devil Has The Broadest Perspectives For God; Therefore, He Keeps So Far Away From God -- The Devil Being The Most Ancient Friend Of Wisdom

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.

It Is I, The Ungodly Zarathustra, Who Says:who Is More Ungodly Than I, That I May Rejoice In His Teaching?

Love Is More Afraid Of Change Than Destruction.

We Should Not Talk About Our Friends: Otherwise We Will Talk Away The Feeling Of Friendship.

Creating-that Is The Great Salvation From Suffering, And Life's Alleviation. But For The Creator To Appear, Suffering Itself Is Needed, And Much Transformation.

It Is The Privilege Of Greatness To Confer Intense Happiness With Insignificant Gifts.

The Strongest And Most Evil Spirits Have To Date Advanced Mankind The Most: They Always Rekindled The Sleeping Passions - All Orderly Arranged Society Lulls The Passions To Sleep; They Always Reawakened The Sense Of Comparison, Of Contradiction, Of Delight In The New, The Adventurous, The Untried; They Compelled Men To Set Opinion Against Opinion, Ideal Plan Against Ideal Plan.

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

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

The Love Of Truth Has Its Reward In Heaven And Even On Earth.

Convictions Are More Dangerous Foes Of Truth Than Lies.

How Much Truth Does A Spirit Endure, How Much Truth Does It Dare?

The Empty, The One, The Unmoved, The Full, Satiation, Wanting Nothing--that Would Be My Evil: In Short, Dreamless Sleep.

We Talk About Taking "pleasure In A Thing": But In Truth It Is Pleasure In Ourselves, Mediated By A Thing.

Faced With A World Of "modern Ideas" Which Would Like To Banish Everyone Into A Corner And A "specialty," A Philosopher, If There Could Be A Philosopher These Days, Would Be Compelled To Establish The Greatness Of Mankind, The Idea Of "greatness," On The Basis Of His Own Particular Extensive Range And Multiplicity, His Own Totality In The Midst Of Diversity.

All Credibility, All Good Conscience, All Evidence Of Truth Come Only From The Senses.

Where There Is The Tree Of Knowledge, There Is Always Paradise: So Say The Most Ancient And Most Modern Serpents.

The Trodden Worm Curls Up. This Testifies To Its Caution. It Thus Reduces Its Chances Of Being Trodden Upon Again. In The Language Of Morality: Humility.

Sometimes In Conversation The Sound Of Our Own Voice Distracts Us And Misleads Us Into Making Assertions That In No Way Express Our True Opinions.

Sleep Is No Mean Art.

How Can A Man Know Himself? He Is A Thing Dark And Veiled; And If The Hare Has Seven Skins, Man Can Slough Off Seventy Times Seven And Still Not Be Able To Say: "this Is Really You, This Is No Longer Outer Shell.

The Hour When You Say, "what Does My Happiness Matter? It Is Poverty And Filth, And A Wretched Complacency. Yet My Happiness Should Justify Existence Itself!

The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness.

Even Truthfulness Is But One Means To Knowledge, A Ladder--but Not The Ladder.

This Verse Gets Me Through Each Day, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger! I Am Not Afraid Of Anything Because The Lord Is My Shepherd!

Artists May Here Have A More Subtle Scent: They Know Only Too Well That It Is Precisely When They Cease To Act 'voluntarily' And Do Everything Of Necessity That Their Feeling Of Freedom, Subtlety, Fullness Of Power, Creative Placing, Disposing, Shaping Reaches Its Height - In Short, That Necessity And 'freedom Of Will' Are Then One In Them.

One Who Is Publicly Honest About Himself Ends Up By Priding Himself Somewhat On This Honesty: For He Knows Only Too Well Why He Is Honest-for The Same Reasons Another Person Prefers Illusion And Dissimulation.

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".

What Is Genius?- To Aspire To A Lofty Aim And To Will The Means To That Aim.

There Is More Wisdom In Your Body Than In Your Deepest Philosophy.

Man, Full Of Emptiness And Torn Apart With Homesickness For The Desert Has Had To Create From Within Himself An Adventure, A Torture-chamber, An Unsafe And Hazardous Wilderness- This Fool, This Prisoner Consumed With Longing And Despair, Became The Inventor Of 'bad Conscience'.

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

If One Seeks Relief From Unbearable Pressure, One Is To Eat Hashish.

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

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

“evil Men Have No Songs.” How Is It, Then, That The Russians Have Songs?

It Is Always Consoling To Think Of Suicide: In That Way One Gets Through Many A Bad Night.

Morality Is The Herd-instinct In The Individual.

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Where Is The Lightning To Lick You With Its Tongue? Where Is The Madness With Which You Should Be Cleansed? Behold, I Show You The Superman. He Is This Lightning, He Is This Madness.

If You Are Considering Marriage, Ask Yourself One Question: Will I Still Enjoy Talking With Her When I'm Old?

To Die Proudly When It Is No Longer Possible To Live Proudly. Death Of One's Own Free Choice, Death At The Proper Time, With A Clear Head And With Joyfulness, Consummated In The Midst Of Children And Witnesses: So That An Actual Leave-taking Is Possible While He Who Is Leaving Is Still There.

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

Convictions Are More Dangerous Enemies Of Truth Than Lies.courageous, Untroubled, Mocking And Violent-that Is What Wisdom Wants Us To Be. Wisdom Is A Woman, And Loves Only A Warrior.

Every Step Forward Is Made At The Cost Of Mental And Physical Pain To Someone.

In Our Interactions With People, A Benevolent Hypocrisy Is Frequently Required--acting As Though We Do Not See Through The Motivesof Their Actions.

Too Long, The Earth Has Been A Madhouse!

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

Man Is Something That Shall Be Overcome.... Man Is A Rope, Tied Between Beast And Overman -- A Rope Over An Abyss... What Is Great In Man Is That He Is A Bridge And Not An End.

How Much Reverence Has A Noble Man For His Enemies!--and Such Reverence Is A Bridge To Love.--for He Desires His Enemy For Himself, As His Mark Of Distinction; He Can Endure No Other Enemy Than One In Whom There Is Nothing To Despise And Very Much To Honor! In Contrast To This, Picture "the Enemy" As The Man Of Ressentiment Conceives Him--and Here Precisely Is His Deed, His Creation: He Has Conceived "the Evil Enemy," "the Evil One," And This In Fact Is His Basic Concept, From Which He Then Evolves, As An Afterthought And Pendant, A "good One"--himself!

Now Know I Well What People Sought Formerly Above All Else When They Sought Teachers Of Virtue. Good Sleep They Sought For Themselves, And Poppy-head Virtues To Promote It! To All Those Be-lauded Sages Of The Academic Chairs, Wisdom Was Sleep Without Dreams: They Knew No Higher Significance Of Life. Even At Present, To Be Sure, There Are Some Like This Preacher Of Virtue, And Not Always So Honorable: But Their Time Is Past. And Not Much Longer Do They Stand: There They Already Lie. Blessed Are Those Drowsy Ones: For They Shall Soon Nod To Sleep.-thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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.

Woman Learns To Hate To The Extent To Which Her Charms Decrease.

The Thought Is Merely A Sign, As The Word Is Merely A Sign For The Thought.

When We Cannot Stand Certain People, We Try To Have Suspicions About Them.

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

The Unselective Knowledge Drive Resembles The Indiscriminate Sexual Drive--signs Of Vulgarity!

There Is A Rollicking Kindness That Looks Like Malice.

Profundity Of Thought Belongs To Youth, Clarity Of Thought To Old Age.

Digressions, Objections, Delight In Mockery, Carefree Mistrust Are Signs Of Health.

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."

Man Wishes Woman To Be Peaceable, But In Fact She Is Essentially Warlike, Like The Cat.

In Order To Be Able Thus To Misjudge, And Thus To Grant Left-handed Veneration To Our Classics, People Must Have Ceased To Know Them. This, Generally Speaking, Is Precisely What Has Happened. For, Otherwise, One Ought To Know That There Is Only One Way Of Honoring Them, And That Is To Continue Seeking With The Same Spirit And With The Same Courage, And Not To Weary Of The Search.

It Is Not When It Is Dangerous To Tell The Truth That Its Advocates Are Hardest To Find, But When It Is Boring.

Pity Makes Suffering Contagious.

Nothing On Earth Consumes A Man More Quickly Than The Passion Of Resentment.

Against The Censurers Of Brevity. - Something Said Briefly Can Be The Fruit Of Much Long Thought: But The Reader Who Is A Novice In This Field, And Has As Yet Reflected On It Not At All, Sees In Everything Said Briefly Something Embryonic, Not Without Censuring The Author For Having Served Him Up Such Immature And Unripened Fare.

Childhood And Youth Are Ends In Themselves, Not Stages.

It Is Good To Express A Thing Twice Right At The Outset And So To Give It A Right Foot And Also A Left One. Truth Can Surely Stand On One Leg, But With Two It Will Be Able To Walk And Get Around.

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

There Are People Who Are So Presumptuous That They Know No Other Way To Praise A Greatness That They Publicly Admire Than By Representing It As A Preliminary Stage And Bridge Leading To Themselves.

Probability But No Truth, Facility But No Freedom--it Is Owing To These Two Fruits That The Tree Of Knowledge Cannot Be Confused With The Tree Of Life.

The Suffering Of Genius And Its Value. The Artistic Genius Desires To Give Pleasure, But If His Mind Is On A Very High Plane He Does Not Easily Find Anyone To Share His Pleasure; He Offers Entertainment But Nobody Accepts It. That Gives Him, In Certain Circumstances, A Comically Touching Pathos; For He Has No Right To Force Pleasure On Men. He Pipes, But None Will Dance: Can That Be Tragic?

I Cook Every Chance In My Pot. And Only When It Is Cooked Through Do I Welcome It As My Food.

Good Deeds Shun The Light As Anxiously As Evil Deeds: The Latter Fear That Disclosure Will Bring On Pain (as Punishment), While The Former Fear That Disclosure Will Take Away Pleasure (that Pure Pleasure, That Pleasure Per Se, Which Immediately Ceases Once The Vanity's Satisfaction Is Added).

Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

As Long As You Still Experience The Stars As Something "above You", You Lack The Eye Of Knowledge.

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

The Inclination To Self-depreciation, To Freely Accepting Being Robbed, Being Duped, And Being Swindled, Could Be The Modesty Of A God Among Men.

All Philosophy Is A Form Of Confession.

All Signs Of Superhuman Nature Appear In Man As Illness Or Insanity.

It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable.

The End Of A Melody Is Not Its Goal; But Nonetheless, If The Melody Had Not Reached Its End It Would Not Have Reached Its Goal Either. A Parable.

Energy Wasted On Negative Ends.

Books For General Reading Always Smell Bad; The Odor Of Common People Hangs Around Them.

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.

Whatever Is Profound Loves Masks; What Is Most Profound Even Hates Image And Parable.

Man Is The Cruelest Animal. At Tragedies, Bullfights, And Crucifixions He Has So Far Felt Best On Earth; And When He Invented Hell For Himself, Behold, That Was His Very Heaven.

All That Philosophers Have Handled For Millennia Has Been Conceptual Mummies; Nothing Actual Has Ever Escaped From Their Hands Alive.

At Times One Remains Faithful To A Cause Only Because Its Opponents Do Not Cease To Be Insipid.

Man Is Something To Be Surpassed.

Does Wisdom Perhaps Appear On The Earth As A Raven Which Is Inspired By The Smell Of Carrion?

We Have Art In Order Not To Die Of The Truth.

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

What, Then Is Truth?... Truths Are Illusions About Which One Has Forgotten That This Is What They Are.

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

All Truths Are Bloody Truths To Me.

Many A Peacock Hides His Peacock Tail From All Eyes--and Calls It His Pride.

He Who Does Not Lie Does Not Know What Truth Is.

In What Does The Objective Measure Of Value Lie? In The Quantum Of Enhanced And Organized Power Alone, In Accordance With What Occurs In All Occurrence, A Will To Increase.

The Shortest Route Is Not The Most Direct One, But Rather The One Where The Most Favorable Winds Swell Our Sails:mthat Is The Lesson That Seafarers Teach. Not To Abide By This Lesson Is To Be Obstinate: Here, Firmness Of Character Is Tainted With Stupidity.

The View That Honesty Is Something, And Even A Virtue, Belongs, It Is True, To Those Private Opinions Which Are Forbidden In This Age Of Public Opinions.

Society Tames The Wolf Into A Dog. And Man Is The Most Domesticated Animal Of All.

Only Ideas Won By Walking Have Any Value.

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.

Every Man Is A Creative Cause Of What Happens, A Primum Mobile With An Original Movement.

Women Are Quite Able To Make Friends With A Man; But To Preserve Such A Friendship - That No Doubt Requires The Assistance Of A Slight Physical Antipathy

What Really Raises One's Indignation Against Suffering Is Not Suffering Intrinsically, But The Senselessness Of Suffering

Free Will Appears Unfettered, Deliberate; It Is Boundlessly Free, Wandering, The Spirit. But Fate Is A Necessity; Unless We Believe That World History Is A Dream-error, The Unspeakable Sorrows Of Mankind Fantasies, And That We Ourselves Are But The Toys Of Our Fantasies. Fate Is The Boundless Force Of Opposition Against Free Will. Free Will Without Fate Is Just As Unthinkable As Spirit Without Reality, Good Without Evil. Only Antithesis Creates The Quality.

Shackled Heart, Free Spirit.--whoever Binds His Heart Tightly And Imprisons It May Indulge His Spirit In Many Liberties: I Have Already Said That Once. But No One Believes Me Unless He Already Knows.

Existence Really Is An Imperfect Tense That Never Becomes A Present.

The Teacher As A Necessary Evil. Let Us Have As Few People As Possible Between The Productive Minds And The Hungry And Recipient Minds! The Middlemen Almost Unconsciously Adulterate The Food Which They Supply. It Is Because Of Teachers That So Little Is Learned, And That So Badly.

School Has No Task More Important Than To Teach Strict Thought, Cautious Judgment, And Logical Conclusions, Hence It Must Pay No Attention To What Hinders These Operations, Such As Religion, For Instance.

In Song And Dance, Man Forgets How To Walk And Speak And Is On The Way Into Flying Into The Air, Dancing... His Very Gestures Express Enchantment.

If We Affirm One Moment, We Thus Affirm Not Only Ourselves But All Existence. For Nothing Is Self-sufficient, Neither In Us Ourselves Nor In Things; And If Our Soul Has Trembled With Happiness And Sounded Like A Harp String Just Once, All Eternity Was Needed To Produce This One Event - And In This Single Moment Of Affirmation All Eternity Was Called Good, Redeemed, Justified, And Affirmed.

It Is Some Fundamental Certainty Which A Noble Soul Has About Itself, Something Which Is Not To Be Sought, Is Not To Be Found, And Perhaps, Also, Is Not To Be Lost. The Noble Soul Has Reverence For Itself.

The Good Displeases Us When We Are Not Up To It.

Whoever Fights Monsters Should See To It That In The Process He Does Not Become A Monster. And If You Gaze Long Enough Into An Abyss, The Abyss Will Gaze Back Into You.

...throw Roses Into The Abyss And Say: 'here Is My Thanks To The Monster Who Didn't Succeed In Swallowing Me Alive.

Bad Cooks - And The Utter Lack Of Reason In The Kitchen - Have Delayed Human Development Longest And Impaired It Most.

Take A Chance And Try My Fare! It Will Grow On You, I Swear; Soon It Will Taste Good To You!

One Must Be A Sea, To Receive A Polluted Stream Without Becoming Impure.

Pollution Control

It Is No Doubt Possible To Fly--but First You Must Know How To Dance Like An Angel.

The Happiness Of Man Is: I Will. The Happiness Of Woman Is: He Wills.

Christianity, Alcohol The Two Great Means Of Corruption.

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.

All Things That Are Truly Great Are At First Thought Impossible.

The Form Of A Work Of Art, Which Gives Speech To Their Thoughts And Is, Therefore, Their Mode Of Talking, Is Always Somewhat Uncertain, Like All Kinds Of Speech.

The First Opinion That Occurs To Us When We Are Suddenly Asked About Something Is Usually Not Our Own But Only The Current One Pertaining To Our Class, Position, Or Parentage; Our Own Opinions Seldom Swim On The Surface.

That Is An Artist As I Would Have An Artist Be, Modest In His Needs: He Really Wants Only Two Things, His Bread And His Art--panemet Circen.

Socrates And Plato Are Right: Whatever Man Does He Always Does Well, That Is, He Does That Which Seems To Him Good (useful) According To The Degree Of His Intellect, The Particular Standard Of His Reasonableness.

What Do You Regard As Most Humane? To Spare Someone Shame.

Whoever Has Character Also Has His Typical Experience, Which Returns Over And Over Again.

Spirit Is The Life That Itself Cuts Into Life: With Its Own Torment It Increases Its Own Knowledge. Did You Already Know That?

Nobody Is So Constituted As To Be Able To Live Everywhere And Anywhere; And He Who Has Great Duties To Perform, Which Lay Claim Toall His Strength, Has, In This Respect, A Very Limited Choice. The Influence Of Climate Upon The Bodily Functionsextends So Far, That A Blunder In The Choice Of Locality And Climate Is Able Not Only To Alienate A Man From His Actual Duty, But Also To Withhold It From Him Altogether, So That He Never Even Comes Face To Face With It.

Tolerance Is A Proof Of Distrust In One's Own Ideals.

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.

Scholars Who Become Politicians Are Usually Assigned The Comic Role Of Having To Be The Good Conscience Of State Policy.

For Those Who Need Consolation No Means Of Consolation Is So Effective As The Assertion That In Their Case No Consolation Is Possible: It Implies So Great A Degree Of Distinction That They At Once Hold Up Their Heads Again.

Assuming That Rapture Is Nature's Play With Man, The Dionysian Artist's Creative Activity Is The Play With Rapture.

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

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

Systems Of Morals Are Only A Sign-language Of The Emotions.

All Truly Great Thoughts Are Conceived By Walking.

In Bach There Is Still Too Much Crude Christianity, Crude Germanism, Crude Scholasticism; He Stands On The Threshold Of European (modern) Music, But He Looks Back From There To The Middle Ages.

What Is Originality? To See Something That Is As Yet Without A Name, That Is As Yet Impossible To Designate, Even Though It Staresus In The Face. The Way It Usually Is With People, It Is A Thing's Name That Makes It Perceptible To Them In The First Place.--for The Most Part, The Original Ones Have Also Been The Name-givers.

I Love Something: And Scarcely Do I Love It Completely When The Tyrant In Me Says: "i Want That In Sacrifice." This Cruelty Is In My Entrails. Behold! I Am Evil.

There Is Nothing For Which Men Ask To Be Paid Dearer Than For Humiliation.

It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable; It Is Precisely Thereby That It Attracts The More Subtle Minds. It Seems That The Hundred-times-refuted Theory Of The "free Will" Owes Its Persistence To This Charm Alone; Some One Is Always Appearing Who Feels Himself Strong Enough To Refute It.

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.

It Was Christianity Which First Painted The Devil On The Worlds Walls; It Was Christianity Which First Brought Sin Into The World. Belief In The Cure Which It Offered Has Now Been Shaken To It's Deepest Roots; But Belief In The Sickness Which It Taught And Propagated Continues To Exists.

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.

One Loves Ultimately One's Desires, Not The Thing Desired.

Beyond Good And Evil

Mankind Must Work Continually To Produce Individual Great Human Beings - This And Nothing Else Is The Task... For The Question Is This : How Can Your Life, The Individual Life, Retain The Highest Value, The Deepest Significance? Only By Living For The Good Of The Rarest And Most Valuable Specimens.

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.

When A Man Is Ill His Very Goodness Is Sickly.

For This Remains As I Have Already Pointed Out The Essential Difference Between The Two Religions Of Decadence : Buddhism Promises Nothing, But Actually Fulfils; Christianity Promises Everything, But Fulfils Nothing.

The Greatest Giver Of Alms Is Cowardice.

Those Who Are Devoid Of Purpose Will Make The Void Their Purpose.

Only Where There Are Graves Are There Resurrections.

You Say That I Should Be Your Teacher! See To It That I Am Your Pinion And Not Your Brake.

For The Longest Time, Marriage Has Had A Guilty Conscience About Itself. Should We Believe It?--yes, We Should Believe It.

Guilty Conscience

There Is Always A Certain Noise In Applause: Even In The Applause We Give Ourselves.

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.

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

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.

"this - Is Now My Way - Where Is Yours"? Thus Did I Answer Those Who Asked Me "the Way". For The Way - It Does Not Exist!

I Do Not Mean To Moralise But To Those Who Do, I Would Give This Advice : If You Mean Ultimately To Deprive The Best Things And States Of All All Honour And Worth Then Continue To Talk About Them As You Have Been Doing!

The One Seeks A Midwife To Deliver His Thoughts, The Other, Someone To Assist: Thus A Good Conversation Comes Into Being.

Good Conversation

When Horror Is Associated With What Is Harmful, Evil Results, When Disgust Does, Badness.

Away From God And Gods Did This Will Lure Me: What Would There Be To Create If Gods Existed?

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

Once Upon A Time, In Some Out Of The Way Corner Of That Universe Which Is Dispersed Into Numberless Twinkling Solar Systems, There Was A Star Upon Which Clever Beasts Invented Knowing.

Help Thyself: Then Everyone Will Help Thee Too. Principle Of Christian Charity.

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