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Do Not Talk About Giftedness, Inborn Talents! One Can Assume Great Men Of All Kinds Who Were Very Little Gifted. They Acquired Greatness, Became “geniuses” (as We Put It), Through Qualities The Lack Of Which No One Who Knew What They Were Would Boast Of: They All Possessed That Seriousness Of The Efficient Workman Which First Learns To Construct The Parts Properly Before It Ventures To Fashion A Great Whole; They Allowed Themselves Time For It, Because They Took More Pleasure In Making The Little, Secondary Things Well Than In The Effect Of A Dazzling Whole.

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Do Not Talk About Giftedness, Inborn Talents! One Can Assume Great Men Of All Kinds Who Were Very Little Gifted. They Acquired Greatness, Became “geniuses” (as We Put It), Through Qualities The Lack Of Which No One Who Knew What They Were Would Boast Of: They All Possessed That Seriousness Of The Efficient Workman Which First Learns To Construct The Parts Properly Before It Ventures To Fashion A Great Whole; They Allowed Themselves Time For It, Because They Took More Pleasure In Making The Little, Secondary Things Well Than In The Effect Of A Dazzling Whole.

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Whoever Thought That He Had Understood Something Of Me Had Merely Construed Something Out Of Me, After His Own Image.

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If You Know The Why, You Can Live Any How.

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Whoever Despises Himself Nonetheless Respects Himself As One Who Despises.

Books And Drafts Mean Something Quite Different For Different Thinkers. One Collects In A Book The Lights He Was Able To Steal And Carry Home Swiftly Out Of The Rays Of Some Insight That Suddenly Dawned On Him, While Another Thinker Offers Us Nothing But Shadows - Images In Black And Grey Of What Had Built Up In His Soul The Day Before.

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

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He Who Cannot Give Anything Away Cannot Feel Anything Either.

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On The Heights It Is Warmer Than People In The Valley Suppose, Especially In Winter. The Thinker Recognizes The Full Import Of This Simile.

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I Love Him Who Justifieth The Future Ones, And Redeemeth The Past Ones: For He Is Willing To Succumb Through The Present Ones.

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Woman Learns How To Hate In Proportion As She Forgets How To Charm.

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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.

Every Relationship That Does Not Raise Us Up Pulls Us Down, And Vice Versa; This Is Why Men Usually Sink Down Somewhat When They Take Wives While Women Are Usually Somewhat Raised Up. Overly Spiritual Men Require Marriage Every Bit As Much As They Resist It As Bitter Medicine.

It Is An End With Priests And Gods, If Man Becomes Scientific. Moral: Science Is The Thing Forbidden In Itself - It Alone Is Forbidden. Science Is The First Sin, The Germ Of All Sin, Original Sin. This Alones Is Mortality: Thou Shalt Not Know.

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.

I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!

Assuming That He Believes At All, The Everyday Christian Is A Pitiful Figure, A Man Who Really Cannot Count Up To Three, And Who Besides, Precisely Because Of His Mental Incompetence, Would Not Deserve Such A Punishment As Christianity Promises Him.

A Noble Soul Is Not The One That Can Manage The Highest Flights But The One That Rises Very Little And Falls Very Little But Always Dwells In A Free, Resplendent Atmosphere And Altitude.

If Married Couples Did Not Live Together, Happy Marriages Would Be More Frequent.

Whoever Feels Predestined To See And Not To Believe Will Find All Believers Too Noisy And Pushy: He Guards Against Them.

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

But Not To Perish From Internal Distress And Doubt When One Inflicts Great Suffering And Hears The Cry Of Suffering : That Is Great, That Belongs To Greatness.

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.

Solitude Makes Us Tougher Towards Ourselves And Tenderer Towards Others. In Both Ways It Improves Our Character.

Linguistic Danger To Spiritual Freedom.- Every Word Is A Prejudice.

A Living Being Seeks, Above All, To Discharge Its Strength. Life Is Will To Power.

There Is An Innocence In Lying Which Is The Sign Of Good Faith In A Cause.

I Consist Of Body And Soul - In The Worlds Of A Child. And Why Shouldn't We Speak Like Children? But The Enlightened, The Knowledgealbe Would Say: I Am Body Through And Through, Nothing More; And The Soul Is Just A Word For Something On The Body.

When A Man Reaches His Maturity In Understanding And In Years, The Feeling Comes Over Him That His Father Was Wrong To Beget Him.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

If We Have Injured Someone, Giving Him The Opportunity To Make A Joke About Us Is Often Enough To Provide Him Personal Satisfaction, Or Even To Win His Good Will.

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

The Great Man... Is Colder, Harder, Less Hesitating, And Without Fear Of 'opinion'; He Lacks The Virtues That Accompany Respect And 'respectability,' And Altogether Everything That Is The 'virtue Of The Herd.' If He Cannot Lead, He Goes Alone... He Knows He Is Incommunicable: He Finds It Tasteless To Be Familiar... When Not Speaking To Himself, He Wears A Mask. There Is A Solitude Within Him That Is Inaccessible To Praise Or Blame.

The Snake That Cannot Shed Its Skin Perishes.

Knowing Who You Are

Pharisaism Is Not A Degeneration In A Good Man: A Large Portion Of It Is Rather The Condition Of All Being-good.

Amor Fati – “love Your Fate”, Which Is In Fact Your Life.

Whoever Gives Advice To The Sick Gains A Sense Of Superiority Over Them, No Matter Whether His Advice Is Accepted Or Rejected. That Is Why Sick People Who Are Sensitive And Proud Hate Their Advisors Even More Than Their Illnesses.

In Every Philosophical School, Three Thinkers Succeed One Another In The Following Way: The First Produces Out Of Himself The Sapand Seed, The Second Draws It Out Into Threads And Spins A Synthetic Web, And The Third Waits In This Web For The Sacrificial Victims That Are Caught In It--and Tries To Live Off Philosophy.

Knapsack Of The Metaphysicians.- Those Who Boast So Mightily Of The Scientificality Of Their Metaphysics Should Receive No Answer; It Is Enough To Pluck At The Bundle Which, With A Certain Degree Of Embarrassment, They Keep Concealed Behind Their Back; If One Succeeds In Opening It, The Products Of That Scientificality Come To Light, Attended By Their Blushes: A Dear Little Lord God, A Nice Little Immortality, Perhaps A Certain Quantity Of Spiritualism, And In Any Event A Whole Tangled Heap Of 'wretched Poor Sinner' And Pharisee Arrogance.

Evaluation Is Creation: Hear It, You Creators! Evaluating Is Itself The Most Valuable Treasure Of All That We Value. It Is Only Through Evaluation That Value Exists: And Without Evaluation The Nut Of Existence Would Be Hollow. Hear It, You Creators!

A Vocation Is The Backbone Of Life.

Life And Living

Strideth Over All Mountains, And Laugheth At All Tragedies

The Higher We Soar The Smaller We Appear To Those Who Cannot Fly.

I Love Him Who Scattereth Golden Words In Advance Of His Deeds, And Always Doeth More Than He Promiseth: For He Seeketh His Own Down-going.

Just As A Waterfall Grows Slower And More Lightly Suspended As It Plunges Down, So The Great Man Of Action Tends To Act With Greater Calmness Than His Tempestuous Desires Prior To The Deed Would Lead One To Expect.

Aphorisms Should Be Peaks - And Those Who Are Addressed, Tall And Lofty. The Air Thin And Pure, Danger Near, And The Spirit Full Of Gay Sarcasm: These Go Well Together.

Heroism--that Is The Disposition Of A Man Who Aspires To A Goal Compared To Which He Himself Is Wholly Insignificant. Heroism Is The Good Will To Self-destruction.

We Have No Dreams At All Or Interesting Ones. We Should Learn To Be Awake The Same Way- Not At All Or In An Interesting Manner

One Thing A Man Must Have: Either A Naturally Light Disposition Or A Disposition Lightened By Art And Knowledge.

Life Without Music Is Only Error, Exhaustion, Exile... Indeed, There Is Nothing That Concerns Me More Than The Fate Of Music.

Many Are Obstinate With Regard To The Pathway Once They Have Set Upon It, Few With Regard To The Goal.

When One Rows It Is Not The Rowing Which Moves The Ship: Rowing Is Only A Magical Ceremony By Means Of Which One Compels A Demon To Move The Ship.

And So, Onwards... Along A Path Of Wisdom, With A Hearty Tread, A Hearty Confidence.. However You May Be, Be Your Own Source Of Experience. Throw Off Your Discontent About Your Nature. Forgive Yourself Your Own Self. You Have It In Your Power To Merge Everything You Have Lived Through- False Starts, Errors, Delusions, Passions, Your Loves And Your Hopes- Into Your Goal, With Nothing Left Over.

When We Have To Change Our Mind About A Person, We Hold The Inconvenience He Causes Us Very Much Against Him.

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

God Is A Gross Answer, An Indelicacy Against Us Thinkers- At Bottom Merely A Gross Prohibition For Us: You Shall Not Think!

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.

Do Whatever You Will, But First Be Such As Are Able To Will.

In Christianity Neither Morality Nor Religion Come Into Contact With Reality At Any Point.

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.

By Means Of Music The Very Passions, Enjoy Themselves.

Read From A Distant Star, The Majuscule Script Of Our Earthly Existence Would Perhaps Lead To The Conclusion That The Earth Was The Distinctively Ascetic Planet, A Nook Of Disgruntled, Arrogant Creatures Filled With A Profound Disgust With Themselves, At The Earth, At All Life, Who Inflict As Much Pain On Themselves As They Possibly Can Out Of Pleasure In Inflicting Pain Which Is Probably Their Only Pleasure.

Prejudice Of The Learned. - The Learned Judge Correctly That People Of All Ages Have Believed They Know What Is Good And Evil, Praise- And Blameworthy. But It Is A Prejudice Of The Learned That We Now Know Better Than Any Other Age.

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.

For Both Parties In A Controversy, The Most Disagreeable Way Of Retaliating Is To Be Vexed And Silent; For The Aggressor Usually Regards The Silence As A Sign Of Contempt.

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).

My Brother, Are War And Battle Evil? Necessary, However, Is The Evil; Necessary Are The Envy And The Distrust And The Back-biting Among The Virtues.

If Thinking Is Your Fate, Revere This Fate With Divine Honour And Sacrifice To It The Best, The Most Beloved

Your Soul Will Be Dead Even Before Your Body: Fear Nothing Further.

But Tell Me: How Did Gold Get To Be The Highest Value? Because It Is Uncommon And Useless And Gleaming And Gentle In Its Brilliance; It Always Gives Itself. Only As An Image Of The Highest Virtue Did Gold Get To Be The Highest Value. The Giver's Glance Gleams Like Gold. A Golden Brilliance Concludes Peace Between The Moon And The Sun. Uncommon Is The Highest Virtue And Useless, It Is Gleaming And Gentle In Its Brilliance: A Gift-giving Virtue Is The Highest Virtue.

The Usual False Conclusions Of Mankind Are These: A Thing Exists, Therefore It Has A Right To Exist.

Human, All Too Human.

As A Result, Nature Is Something Entirely Different From What Comes To Mind When We Invoke Its Name.

What Do I Care About The Purring Of One Who Cannot Love, Like The Cat?

In The Whole Of The New Testament There Is Not One Joke, That Fact Alone Would Invalidate Any Book.

Have You Heard Of That Madman Who Lit A Lantern In The Bright Morning Hours, Ran To The Market Place, And Cried Incessantly, I Seek God! I Seek God! As Many Of Those Who Do Not Believe In God Were Standing Around Just Then, He Provoked Much Laughter... Whither Is God, He Cried. I Shall Tell You. We Have Killed Him - You And I. All Of Us Are Murderers.... God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.

I Love Those Who Do Not Know How To Live For Today.

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

Among Austere Men Intimacy Involves Shame--and Is Something Precious.

I Will Make An Attempt To Attain Freedom, The Youthful Soul Says To Itself; And Is It To Be Hindered In This By The Fact That Two Nations Happen To Hate And Fight One Another, Or That Two Continents Are Separated By An Ocean, Or That All Around It A Religion Is Taught With Did Not Yet Exist A Couple Of Thousand Years Ago. All That Is Not You, It Says To Itself.

Immortal Is The Moment When I Engendered The Recurrence. For The Sake Of This Moment I Bear The Recurrence.

The Wisest Man Would Be The One Richest In Contradictions, Who Has, As It Were, Antennae For All Types Of Men---as Well As His Great Moments Of Grand Harmony---a Rare Accident Even In Us! A Sort Of Planetary Motion---

I And Me Are Always Too Deeply In Conversation.

Alas, Where Is There Still A Sea In Which One Could Drown: Thus Our Lament Resounds – Across Shallow Swamps.

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

There Is More Wisdom In Your Body Than In Your Best Wisdom. And Who Then Knows Why Your Body Needs Precisely Your Best Wisdom?

He Who Denies Himself Much In Great Matters Will Readily Indulge Himself In Small Things.

All That The World Most Needs Today, Is Combined In The Most Seductive Manner In His Art, — The Three Great Stimulants Of Exhausted People: Brutality, Artificiality And Innocence (idiocy).

What Is Life? A Continuous Praise And Blame.

A Woman's Pity, Which Is Talkative, Carries The Sick Person's Bed To The Public Marketplace.

The Surest Aid In Combating The Male's Disease Of Self-contempt Is To Be Loved By A Clever Woman.

Christianity Is Called The Religion Of Pity.

One Is Punished Best For One's Virtues.

He Who Humbles Himself Wants To Be Exalted.

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

What We Experience In Dreams - Assuming That We Experience It Often - Belongs In The End Just As Much To The Over-all Economy Of Our Soul As Anything Experienced "actually": We Are Richer Or Poorer On Account Of It.

That God Became Man Indicates Only This: That Man Should Not Seek His Salvation In Eternity, But Rather Establish His Heaven On Earth.

To Learn From Our Enemies Is The Best Pathway To Loving Them: For It Makes Us Grateful To Them.

Truly, Whoever Possesses Little Is That Much Less Possessed: Praised Be A Little Poverty!

Jesus Died Too Soon. If He Had Lived To My Age He Would Have Repudiated His Doctrine.

Many People Wait Throughout Their Whole Lives For The Chance To Be Good In Their Own Fashion.

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