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But In The End One Also Has To Understand That The Needs That Religion Has Satisfied And Philosophy Is Now Supposed To Satisfy Are Not Immutable; They Can Be Weakened And Exterminated. Consider, For Example, That Christian Distress Of Mind That Comes From Sighing Over Ones Inner Depravity And Care For Ones Salvation - All Concepts Originating In Nothing But Errors Of Reason And Deserving, Not Satisfaction, But Obliteration.

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But In The End One Also Has To Understand That The Needs That Religion Has Satisfied And Philosophy Is Now Supposed To Satisfy Are Not Immutable; They Can Be Weakened And Exterminated. Consider, For Example, That Christian Distress Of Mind That Comes From Sighing Over Ones Inner Depravity And Care For Ones Salvation - All Concepts Originating In Nothing But Errors Of Reason And Deserving, Not Satisfaction, But Obliteration.

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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?

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In Everything One Thing Is Impossible: Rationality.

Judgments, Value Judgments Concerning Life, For Or Against, Can In The Last Resort Never Be True: They Possess Value Only As Symptoms, They Come Into Consideration Only As Symptoms - In Themselves Such Judgments Are Stupidities.

Today A Man Of Knowledge Might Well Feel As Though He Were God Transformed Into An Animal.

So Long As The Priest, That Professional Negator, Slanderer And Poisoner Of Life, Is Regarded As A Superior Type Of Human Being, There Cannot Be Any Answer To The Question: What Is Truth?

For It Is Only As An Aesthetic Phenomenon That Existence And The World Are Eternally Justified.

The Refinement Of Morality Increases Together With The Refinement Of Fear. Today The Fear Of Disagreeable Feelings In Other People Is Almost The Strongest Of Our Own Disagreeable Feelings.

The Man Who Sees Little Always Sees Less Than There Is To See; The Man Who Hears Badly Always Hears Something More Than There Is To Hear.

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

To Be Moral, Correct, And Virtuous Is To Be Obedient To An Old Established Law And Custom.

Loneliness Is One Thing, Solitude Another.

What Does A Philosopher Demand Of Himself, First And Last? To Overcome His Time In Himself, To Become "timeless.

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

Our Destiny Rules Over Us, Even When We Are Not Yet Aware Of It; It Is The Future That Makes Laws For Our Today.

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

The Great Epochs Of Our Life Come When We Gain The Courage To Rechristen Our Evil As What Is Best In Us.

Man Is The Cruelest Animal.

Talking Much About Oneself May Be A Way Of Hiding Oneself.

There Is A Universal Need To Exercise Some Kind Of Power, Or To Create For One's Self The Appearance Of Some Power, If Only Temporarily, In The Form Of Intoxication.

When One Has Not Had A Good Father, One Must Create One.

Without Music, Life Would Be An Error. The German Imagines Even God Singing Songs

Whoever No Longer Finds Greatness In God No Longer Finds It Anywhere--he Must Either Deny It Or Create It.

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

Antithesis Is The Narrow Gateway Through Which Error Most Prefers To Worm Its Way Towards Truth.

A Man Who Is Very Busy Seldom Changes His Opinions.

A Moral System Valid For All Is Basically Immoral.

Conversation With A Friend Will Only Bear Good Fruit Of Knowledge When Both Think Only Of The Matter Under Consideration And Forget That They Are Friends.

I Need Solitude, Which Is To Say, Recovery, Return To My Self, The Breath Of A Free, Light, Playful Air.

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

To Live Alone One Must Be A Beast Or A God, Says Aristotle. Leaving Out The Third Case: One Must Be Both - A Philosopher.

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.

Around The Hero Everything Turns Into A Tragedy, Around The Demigod, A Satyr-play, And Around God--what? Perhaps A "world"?

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

Look Not Into The Sun! Even The Moon Is Too Bright For Your Nocturnal Eyes!

The Advantage Of A Bad Memory Is That One Enjoys Several Times The Same Good Things For The First Time.

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