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Different Types Of Dangerous Lives-you Have No Idea What You Are Living Through; You Rush Through Life As If You Were Drunk And Now And Then Fall Down Some Staircase. But Thanks To Your Drunkenness You Never Break A Limb; Your Muscles Are Too Relaxed And Your Brain Too Benighted For You To Find The Stones Of These Stairs As Hard As We Do.

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Different Types Of Dangerous

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Different Types Of Dangerous Lives-you Have No Idea What You Are Living Through; You Rush Through Life As If You Were Drunk And Now And Then Fall Down Some Staircase. But Thanks To Your Drunkenness You Never Break A Limb; Your Muscles Are Too Relaxed And Your Brain Too Benighted For You To Find The Stones Of These Stairs As Hard As We Do.

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I Live In My Own Place - Have Never Copied Anyone Even Half, And At Any Master Who Lacks The Grace - To Laugh At Himself - I Laugh.

If That Glad Message Of Your Bible Were Written In Your Faces, You Would Not Need To Demand Belief In The Authority Of That Book In Such Stiff-necked Fashion.

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

Whatever May Be Your Desire To Accomplish Great Deeds, The Deep Silence Of Pregnancy Never Comes To You! The Event Of The Day Sweeps You Along Like Straws Before The Wind Whilst Ye Lie Under The Illusion That Ye Are Chasing The Event,-poor Fellows! If A Man Wishes To Act The Hero On The Stage He Must Not Think Of Forming Part Of The Chorus; He Should Not Even Know How The Chorus Is Made Up.

For A Tree To Become Tall It Must Grow Tough Roots Among The Rocks.

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

A Few Hours' Mountain Climbing Make Of A Rogue And A Saint Two Fairly Equal Creatures. Tiredness Is The Shortest Path To Equality And Fraternity - And Sleep Finally Adds To Them Liberty.

Morality Is: The Mediocre Are Worth More Than The Exceptions ... I Abhore Christianity With A Deadly Hatred.

You Gave Him An Opportunity Of Showing Greatness Of Character And He Did Not Seize It. He Will Never Forgive You For That.

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).

In The Last Analysis, Even The Best Man Is Evil: In The Last Analysis, Even The Best Woman Is Bad.

Virtues Are Dangerous As Vices Insofar As They Are Allowed To Rule Over One As Authorities And Not As Qualities One Develops Oneself.

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

He Who Despises Himself Esteems Himself As A Self-despiser.

And As Long As You Are In Any Way Ashamed Before Yourself, You Do Not Yet Belong With Us.

A Man Who Is Very Busy Seldom Changes His Opinions.

Every Deep Thinker Is More Afraid Of Being Understood Than Of Being Misunderstood.

Being Misunderstood

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

Many A One Cannot Loosen His Own Fetters, But Is Nevertheless His Friend's Emancipator.

The Christian Resolution To Find The World Ugly And Bad Has Made The World Ugly And Bad.

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

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.

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The Great End Of Art Is To Strike The Imagination With The Power Of A Soul That Refuses To Admit Defeat Even In The Midst Of A Collapsing World.

Without Cruelty There Is No Festival: Thus The Longest And Most Ancient Part Of Human History Teaches And In Punishment There Is So Much That Is Festive!

I Have Given A Name To My Pain, And Call It "dog".

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Buddha Says: "do Not Flatter Your Benefactor!". Let One Repeat This Saying In A Christian Church : It Immediately Purifies The Air Of Everything Christian.

One Must Need To Be Strong, Otherwise One Will Never Become Strong.

Rational Thought Is Interpretation According To A Scheme Which We Cannot Escape.

What Then In The Last Resort Are The Truths Of Mankind? They Are The Irrefutable Errors Of Mankind.

Live Dangerously. Build Your Cities On The Slopes Of Vesuvius.

Art Is Not Merely An Imitation Of The Reality Of Nature, But In Truth A Metaphysical Supplement To The Reality Of Nature, Placed Alongside Thereof For Its Conquest.

Only Great Pain Is, As The Teacher Of Great Suspicion, The Ultimate Liberator Of The Spirit...i Doubt Whether Such Pain Improves Us-but I Do Know It Deepens Us.

Whoever Has Looked Deeply Into The World Might Well Guess What Wisdom Lies In The Superficiality Of Men.

Without Passions You Have No Experience Whatever.

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Faith Makes Blessed. Consequently It Lies.

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What Do You Believe In?--in This, That The Weights Of All Things Must Be Determined Anew.

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They're So Cold, These Scholars! May Lightning Strike Their Food So That Their Mouths Learn How To Eat Fire!

Remain True To The Earth.

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Objectivity And Justice Have Nothing To Do With One Another.

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

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In Order To Be Somebody You Have To Hold Even Your Shadow In High Regard.

The Only Excuse For God Is That He Doesn't Exist.

Once You Were Apes, Yet Even Now Man Is More Of An Ape Than Any Of The Apes.

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.

We Forget Our Guilt When We Have Confessed It To Another, But The Other Does Not Usually Forget It.

We Seldom Break Our Leg So Long As Life Continues A Toilsome Upward Climb. The Danger Comes When We Begin To Take Things Easily And Choose The Convenient Paths.

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Original Minds Are Not Distinguished By Being The First To See A New Thing, But Instead By Seeing The Old, Familiar Thing That Is Over-looked As Something New.

Whoever Has Not Two-thirds Of His Time To Himself, Is A Slave.

Life Is Fountain Of Joy; But Where The Rabble Also Gather To Drink, All Wells Are Poisoned.

Let Us Not Underestimate The Privileges Of The Mediocre. As One Climbs Higher, Life Becomes Ever Harder, The Coldness Increases, Responsibility Increases.

The Love Of Power Is The Demon Of Mankind.

Desire For Power

Against War One Might Say That It Makes The Victor Stupid And The Vanquished Malicious. In Its Favor, That In Producing These Two Effects It Barbarizes, And So Makes The Combatants More Natural. For Culture It Is A Sleep Or A Wintertime, And Man Emerges From It Stronger For Good And For Evil.

People Who, Out Of An Inborn Moderation, Leave Every Glass Standing Only Half-emptied Refuse To Admit That Everything In The World Has Its Sediments And Dregs.

And So While Dreams Are The Individual Man's Play With Reality, The Sculptor's Art Is (in A Broader Sense) The Play With Dreams.

My Time Has Not Yet Come Either; Some Are Born Posthumously.

Reality Is Captured In The Categorical Nets Of Language Only At The Expense Of Fatal Distortion.

I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!

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

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There Is A Certain Right By Which We Many Deprive A Man Of Life, But None By Which We May Deprive Him Of Death; This Is Mere Cruelty.

I Fly In Dreams, I Know It Is My Privilege, I Do Not Recall A Single Situation In Dreams When I Was Unable To Fly. To Execute Every Sort Of Curve And Angle With A Light Impulse, A Flying Mathematics - That Is So Distinct A Happiness That It Has Permanently Suffused My Basic Sense Of Happiness.

We Cannot Even Reproduce Our Thoughts Entirely In Words.

What Is Good? All That Heightens The Feeling Of Power, The Will To Power, Power Itself. What Is Bad? All That Is Born Of Weakness. What Is Happiness? The Feeling That Power Is Growing, That Resistance Is Overcome.

Not Doubt, Certainty Is What Drives One Insane.

Thus Do I Want Man And Woman To Be: The One Fit To Wage War And The Other Fit To Give Birth, But Both Fit To Dance With Head And Feet.

In Constructing Concepts, We Overlook The Fact That No Two Things Are The Same. There Is No Such Thing As The Concept Of A Leaf, Only Billions And Billions Of Leaves.

No Artist Tolerates Reality.

That, However, Is - Mediocrity, Though It Be Called Moderation.

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

. . . An Absurd Problem Came To The Surface: 'how Could God Permit That (crucifixion Of Jesus Christ)!' . . . The Deranged Reason Of The Little Community Found Quite A Frightfully Absurd Answer: God Gave His Son For Forgiveness, As A Sacrifice . . . The Sacrifice For Guilt, And Just In Its Most Repugnant And Barbarous Form - The Sacrifice Of The Innocent For The Sins Of The Guilty! What Horrifying Heathenism!

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

The Reasons For Which 'this' World Has Been Characterized As 'apparent' Are The Very Reasons Which Indicate Its Reality; Any Other Kind Of Reality Is Absolutely Indemonstrable.

In Every Age The Wisest Have Passed The Identical Judgment On Life: It Is Worthless.

Human Condition

Sharp And Mild, Dull And Keen, Well Known And Strange, Dirty And Clean, Where Both The Fool And Wise Are Seen: All This Am I, Have Ever Been, - In Me Dove, Snake And Swine Convene!

And You Tell Me, Friends, That There Is No Disputing Taste And Tasting? But All Life Is A Dispute Over Taste And Tasting!

All Idealists Imagine That The Causes They Serve Are Fundamentally Better Than Any Other Causes In The World, And They Refuse To Believe That If Their Cause Is To Flourish At All It Requires Precisely The Same Foul-smelling Manure That Is Necessary To All Other Human Undertakings.

What I Really Want From Music: That It Be Cheerful And Profound Like An Afternoon In October.

Before The Effect One Believes In Different Causes Than One Does After The Effect.

One Does Not Want To Be Deceived, Under The Supposition That It Is Injurious, Dangerous, Or Fatal To Be Deceived.

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.

I Would Only Believe In A God Who Could Dance. And When I Saw My Devil I Found Him Serious, Thorough, Profound, And Solemn: It Was The Spirit Of Gravity—through Him All Things Fall. Not By Wrath Does One Kill But By Laughter. Come, Let Us Kill The Spirit Of Gravity!

Even The Pluckiest Among Us Has But Seldom The Courage Of What He Really Knows.

Sleeping Is No Mean Art: For Its Sake One Must Stay Awake All Day.

[heraclitus Had] Pride Not In Logical Knowledge But Rather In Intuitive Grasping Of The Truth.

When One Speaks Of Humanity, The Idea Is Fundamental That This Is Something Which Separates And Distinguishes Man From Nature. In Reality, However, There Is No Such Separation: "natural" Qualities And Those Called Truly "human" Are Inseparably Grown Together. Man, In His Highest And Noblest Capacities, Is Wholly Nature And Embodies Its Uncanny Dual Character. Those Of His Abilities Which Are Terrifying And Considered Inhuman May Even Be The Fertile Soil Out Of Which Alone All Humanity Can Grow In Impulse, Deed, And Work.

There Are People Who Want To Make Men's Lives More Difficult For No Other Reason Than The Chance It Provides Them Afterwards To Offer Their Prescription For Alleviating Life; Their Christianity, For Instance.

The States In Which We Infuse A Transfiguration And A Fullness Into Things And Poetize About Them Until They Reflect Back Our Fullness And Joy In Life... Three Elements Principally: Sexuality, Intoxication And Cruelty All Belonging To The Oldest Festal Joys.

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.

Ye Shall Only Have Foes To Be Hated; But Not Foes To Be Despised: Ye Must Be Proud Of Your Foes.

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

Losing Yourself

The Philosopher Caught In The Nets Of Language.

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.

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

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

The Good Four. Honest With Ourselves And With Whatever Is Friend To Us; Courageous Toward The Enemy; Generous Toward The Vanquished; Polite-always That Is How The Four Cardinal Virtues Want Us.

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

The Wheel And The Brake Have Different Duties, But Also One In Common: To Hurt One Another.

Men Seldom Persevere In A Vocation Unless They Believe Or Can Convince Themselves That It Is Fundamentally More Important Than Anyother Calling. Women Are The Same With Their Lovers.

All Truth Is Crooked, Time Itself Is A Circle

Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

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.

Madness Is The Result Not Of Uncertainty But Certainty.

Are You Visiting Women? Do Not Forget Your Whip

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!

Words Are Acoustical Signs For Concepts; Concepts, However, Are More Or Less Definite Image Signs For Often Recurring And Associated Sensations, For Groups Of Sensations. To Understand One Another, It Is Not Enough That One Use The Same Words; One Also Has To Use The Same Words For The Same Species Of Inner Experiences; In The End One Has To Have One's Experiences In Common.

It Is Nobler To Declare Oneself Wrong Than To Insist On Being Right --especially When One Is Right.

Children From Humble Families Must Be Taught How To Command Just As Other Children Must Be Taught How To Obey.

The Great Man Fights The Elements In His Time That Hinder His Own Greatness, In Other Words His Own Freedom And Sincerity.

Man Makes God In His Own Image.

How Is Freedom Measured, In Individuals As In Nations? By The Resistance Which Has To Be Overcome, By The Effort It Costs To Stay Aloft. One Would Have To Seek The Highest Type Of Free Man Where The Greatest Resistance Is Constantly Being Overcome: Five Steps From Tyranny, Near The Threshold Of The Danger Of Servitude.

One Has Renounced The Great Life When One Renounces War.

One Who Has Given Up Any Hope Of Winning A Fight Or Has Clearly Lost It Wants His Style In Fighting To Be Admired All The More.

Madness Is The Exception In Individuals But The Rule In Groups.

When An Idea Is Just Rising On The Horizon, The Soul's Temperature With Respect To It Is Usually Very Cold. Only Gradually Does The Idea Develop Its Warmth, And It Is Hottest (which Is To Say, Exerting Its Greatest Influence) When Belief In The Idea Is Already Once Again In Decline.

The Earth Has A Skin And That Skin Has Diseases; One Of Its Diseases Is Called Man.

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.

Whether We Immoralists Do Any Harm To Virtue?-just As Little As Anarchists Do To Princes. It Is Only Because They Have Been Shot At That They Once Again Sit Securely On Their Thrones. Moral: We Must Shoot At Morals.

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

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!

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

I Am Opposed To Socialism Because It Dreams Ingenuously Of Good, Truth, Beauty, And Equal Rights.

A Matter That Becomes Clear Ceases To Concern Us.--what Was That God Thinking Who Counseled, "know Thyself!" Did He Perhaps Mean,"cease To Concern Yourself! Become Objective!"--and Socrates?--and "scientific Men"?

Dancing In All Its Forms Cannot Be Excluded From The Curriculum Of All Noble Education; Dancing With The Feet, With Ideas, With Words, And, Need I Add That One Must Also Be Able To Dance With The Pen?

The Slow Arrow Of Beauty. The Noblest Kind Of Beauty Is That Which Does Not Transport Us Suddenly, Which Does Not Make Stormy And Intoxicating Impressions Such A Kind Easily Arouses Disgust But That Which Slowly Filters Into Our Minds.

Words Of Wisdom

The Will To Power Can Express Itself Only Against Resistances; It Seeks That Which Resists It--this Is The Native Tendency Of Theamoeba When It Extends Its Pseudopodia And Gropes Around.

He Who Fights With Monsters Might Take Care Lest He Thereby Become A Monster. Is Not Life A Hundred Times Too Short For Us To Bore Ourselves?

Body Am I Entirely, And Nothing Else; And Soul Is Only A Word For Something About The Body.

I Am A Prelude To Better Players, O My Brothers! An Example! Follow My Example!

Art Raises Its Head Where Creeds Relax.

Whoever Has Witnessed Another's Ideal Becomes His Inexorable Judge And As It Were His Evil Conscience.

The Highest Type Of Free Men Should Be Sought Where The Highest Resistance Is Constantly Overcome: Five Steps From Tyranny, Close To The Threshold Of The Danger Of Servitude.

The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness.

To The Mediocre, Mediocrity Is A Form Of Happiness.

Every Achievement, Every Step Forward In Knowledge, Is The Consequence Of Courage, Of Toughness Towards Oneself, Of Sincerity To Oneself

What Doesn't Kill You, Only Makes You Stronger

Makes You Stronger

How Much Truth Can A Spirit Bear, How Much Truth Can A Spirit Dare? ... That Became For Me More And More The Real Measure Of Value.

Socrates.- If All Goes Well, The Time Will Come When One Will Take Up The Memorabilia Of Socrates Rather Than The Bible As A Guide To Morals And Reason... The Pathways Of The Most Various Philosophical Modes Of Life Lead Back To Him... Socrates Excels The Founder Of Christianity In Being Able To Be Serious Cheerfully And In Possessing That Wisdom Full Of Roguishness That Constitutes The Finest State Of The Human Soul. And He Also Possessed The Finer Intellect.

Invisible Threads Are The Strongest Ties.

Posthumous Men-myself, For Example-are Not As Well Understood As Timely Ones, But We Are Listened To Better. More Precisely: We Are Never Understood-hence Our Authority.

When A Man Is Ill His Very Goodness Is Sickly.

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

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