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Even Today Many Educated People Think That The Victory Of Christianity Over Greek Philosophy Is A Proof Of The Superior Truth Of The Former - Although In This Case It Was Only The Coarser And More Violent That Conquered The More Spiritual And Delicate. So Far As Superior Truth Is Concerned, It Is Enough To Observe That The Awakening Sciences Have Allied Themselves Point By Point With The Philosophy Of Epicurus, But Point By Point Rejected Christianity.

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Even Today Many Educated People Think That The Victory Of Christianity Over Greek Philosophy Is A Proof Of The Superior Truth Of The Former - Although In This Case It Was Only The Coarser And More Violent That Conquered The More Spiritual And Delicate. So Far As Superior Truth Is Concerned, It Is Enough To Observe That The Awakening Sciences Have Allied Themselves Point By Point With The Philosophy Of Epicurus, But Point By Point Rejected Christianity.

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I Assess The Power Of A Will By How Much Resistance, Pain, Torture It Endures And Knows How To Turn To Its Advantage.

The More You Let Yourself Go, The Less Others Let You Go.

The Greatest Giver Of Alms Is Cowardice.

Every Talent Must Unfold Itself In Fighting.

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.

Partial Knowledge Is More Triumphant Than Complete Knowledge; It Takes Things To Be Simpler Than They Are, And So Makes Its Theory More Popular And Convincing.

Women's Modesty Generally Increases With Their Beauty.

In Every Party There Is One Person Who, Through His Dotingly Credulous Enunciation Of Party Principles, Incites The Other Members To Defection.

One Is Fruitful Only At The Cost Of Being Rich In Contradictions.

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In Pain There Is As Much Wisdom As In Pleasure: Like The Latter It Is One Of The Best Self Preservatives Of A Species.

Better Know Nothing Than Half-know Many Things.

Ye Shall Be Those Whose Eyes Ever Seek For An Enemy - For Your Enemy. And With Some Of You There Is Hatred At First Sight.

Nihilism: Any Aim Is Lacking, Any Answer To The Question "why" Is Lacking. What Does Nihilism Mean?--that The Supreme Values Devaluate Themselves.

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

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I Want To Speak To The Despisers Of The Body. I Would Not Have Them Learn And Teach Differently, But Merely Say Farewell To Their Own Bodies-- And Thus Become Silent.

Weariness That Wants To Reach The Ultimate With One Leap, With One Fatal Leap, A Poor Ignorant Weariness That Does Not Want To Want Any More: This Created All Gods And Afterworlds.

A Man Of Genius Is Unbearable, Unless He Possesses At Least Two Things Besides: Gratitude And Purity.

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.

I Love Him Who Desireth Not Too Many Virtues. One Virtue Is More Of A Virtue Than Two, Because It Is More Of A Knot For One's Destiny To Cling To.

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A Philosophical Mythology Lies Concealed In Language, Which Breaks Out Again At Every Moment, No Matter How Cautious We May Be.

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Improvements Are Invented Only By Those Who Can Feel That Something Is Not Good.

A Reader Is Doubly Guilty Of Bad Manners Against An Author When He Praises His Second Book At The Expense Of His First (or Vice Versa) And Then Expects The Author To Be Grateful For What He Has Done.

The Essential Thing ‘in Heaven And Earth’ Is That There Should Be A Long Obedience In The Same Direction; There Thereby Results, And Has Always Resulted In The Long Run, Something Which Has Made Life Worth Living.

They Devour Each Other And Cannot Even Digest Themselves.

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Only Individuals Have A Sense Of Responsibility.

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

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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).

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Regarding Life, The Wisest Men Of All Ages Have Judged Alike: It Is Worthless.

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For What Purpose Humanity Is There Should Not Even Concern Us: Why You Are Here, That You Should Ask Yourself: And If You Have No Ready Answer, Then Set For Yourself Goals, High And Noble Goals, And Perish In Pursuit Of Them!

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We Have To Be Careful That In Throwing Out The Devil, We Don't Throw Out The Best Part Of Ourselves.

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If The All Powerful God Controls Satan He Is An Accomplice, And If He Doesn't, He Is Not An All Powerful God.

Science And Art Have That In Common That Everyday Things Seem To Them New And Attractive.

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There Is An Old Illusion. It Is Called Good And Evil.

My Conception Of Freedom. — The Value Of A Thing Sometimes Does Not Lie In That Which One Attains By It, But In What One Pays For It — What It Costs Us. Liberal Institutions Cease To Be Liberal As Soon As They Are Attained: Later On, There Are No Worse And No More Thorough Injurers Of Freedom Than Liberal Institutions.

Not Their Love Of Humanity, But The Impotence Of Their Love, Prevents The Christians Of Today - Burning Us.

People Who Wish To Numb Our Caution In Dealing With Them By Means Of Flattery Are Employing A Dangerous Expedient, Like A Sleeping Draught, Which, If It Does Not Put Us To Sleep, Keeps Us All The More Awake.

Idleness Is The Beginning Of All Psychology. What? Could It Be That Psychology Is ? A Vice?

Whenever The Truth Is Uncovered, The Artist Will Always Cling With Rapt Gaze To What Still Remains Covering Even After Such Uncovering; But The Theoretical Man Enjoys And Finds Satisfaction In The Discarded Covering And Finds The Highest Object Of His Pleasure In The Process Of An Ever Happy Uncovering That Succeeds Through His Own Efforts.

I Enquire Now As To The Genesis Of A Philologist And Assert The Following: 1. A Young Man Cannot Possibly Know What Greeks And Romans Are. 2. He Does Not Know Whether He Is Suited For Finding Out About Them.

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.

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

In A Man Devoted To Knowledge, Pity Seems Almost Ridiculous, Like Delicate Hands On A Cyclops.

"belief In The Truth Commences With The Doubting Of All Those "truths" We Once Believed."

If You Wish To Understand A Philosopher, Do Not Ask What He Says, But Find Out What He Wants

A Man Far Oftener Appears To Have A Decided Character From Persistently Following His Temperament Than From Persistently Following His Principles.

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.

One Must Repay Good And Ill; But Why Just To The Person Who Did Us Good Or Ill?

At Bottom Every Man Knows Well Enough That He Is A Unique Being, Only Once On This Earth; And By No Extraordinary Chance Will Such A Marvelously Picturesque Piece Of Diversity In Unity As He Is, Ever Be Put Together A Second Time.

So Live Your Life Of Obedience And Of War! What Matter About Long Life! What Warrior Wisheth To Be Spared!

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.

A Book Should Long For Pen, Ink, And Writing-table: But Usually It Is Pen, Ink, And Writing-table That Long For A Book. That Is Why Books Are So Negligible Nowadays.

I Cannot Believe In A God Who Wants To Be Praised All The Time.

The Charm Of Knowledge Would Be Small Indeed, Were It Not That There Is So Much Shame To Be Overcome On The Way To It.

A Martyr's Disciples Suffer More Than The Martyr.

It Takes Physical Courage To Indulge In Wickedness. The "good" Are Too Cowardly To Do It.

Art Is The Proper Task Of Life.

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

Without The Errors Involved In The Assumptions Of Ethics, Man Would Have Remained An Animal. Thus Has He Taken Himself As Something Higher And Imposed Rigid Laws Upon Himself.

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

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

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

A Certain Type Of Person Strives To Become A Master Over All, And To Extend His Force, His Will To Power, And To Subdue All That Resists It. But He Encounters The Power Of Others, And Comes To An Arrangement, A Union, With Those That Are Like Him: Thus They Work Together To Serve The Will To Power. And The Process Goes On.

Working Together

One Must Learn To Be A Sponge If One Wants To Be Loved By Hearts That Overflow.

No Honey Is Sweeter Than That Of Knowledge.

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

The Most Dangerous Follower Is The One Whose Defection Would Destroy The Whole Party: Hence, The Best Follower.

He Who Denies His Own Vanity Usually Possesses It In So Brutal A Form That He Instinctively Shuts His Eyes To Avoid The Necessity Of Despising Himself.

Epicurus Had Rage And Envy Of Plato's Superior Style.

The Bite Of Conscience, Like The Bite Of A Dog Into A Stone, Is A Stupidity.

The Church Is Precisely That Against Which Jesus Preached -- And Against Which He Taught His Disciples To Fight.

What Europe Owes To The Jews? - Many Things, Good And Bad, And Above All One Thing Of The Nature Both Of The Best And The Worst: The Grand Style In Morality, The Fearfulness And Majesty Of Infinite Demands, Of Infinite Significations, The Whole Romanticism And Sublimity Of Moral Questionableness - And Consequently Just The Most Attractive, Ensnaring, And Exquisite Element In Those Iridescences And Allurements To Life, In The Aftersheen Of Which The Sky Of Our European Culture, Its Evening Sky, Now Glows - Perhaps Glows Out.

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Christianity, Alcohol The Two Great Means Of Corruption.

Do You Call Yourself Free? It Is Your Ruling Thought That I Would Hear, And Not That You Have Escaped From A Yoke.

The Drive Toward The Formation Of Metaphors Is The Fundamental Human Drive, Which One Cannot For A Single Instant Dispense With In Thought , For One Would Thereby Dispense With Man Himself.

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When Somebody Dies We Usually Need Reasons For Consolation, Not So Much To Alleviate Our Pain As To Excuse Ourselves For So Readily Feeling Consoled.

Democratic Institutions Form A System Of Quarantine For Tyrannical Desires.

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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.

Strideth Over All Mountains, And Laugheth At All Tragedies

Man And Man's Earth Are Unexhausted And Undiscovered. Wake And Listen! Verily, The Earth Shall Yet Be A Source Of Recovery. Remain Faithful To The Earth, With The Power Of Your Virtue. Let Your Gift-giving Love And Your Knowledge Serve The Meaning Of The Earth.

The Errors Of Great Men Are Venerable Because They Are More Fruitful Than The Truths Of Little Men.

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.

One Day Soon You Will Meet A Man, And He Will Rise Like A Phoenix From The Ashes, And It Is My Greatest Hope That He Will Not Give You Syphilis.

A Belief, However Necessary It May Be For The Preservation Of A Species, Has Nothing To Do With Truth. The Falseness Of A Judgment Is Not For Us Necessarily An Objection To A Judgment. The Question Is To What Extent It Is Life-promoting, Life-preserving, Species Preserving, Perhaps Even Species Cultivating. To Recognize Untruth As A Condition Of Life--that Certainly Means Resisting Accustomed Value Feelings In A Dangerous Way; And A Philosophy That Risks This Would By That Token Alone Place Itself Beyond Good And Evil.

Those That Achieve Anything That Looks Beyond The Vision And Thinking Of Their Peers Provoke Jealousy And Hatred Disguised As The Ordinary.

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

A Vocation Is The Backbone Of Life.

Life And Living

The Strength Required For The Vision Of The Most Powerful Reality Is Not Only Compatible With The Most Powerful Strength For Action, For Monstrous Action, For Crime - It Even Presupposes It.

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.

A Great Value Of Antiquity Lies In The Fact That Its Writings Are The Only Ones That Modern Men Still Read With Exactness.

Wherever Germany Extends Her Sway, She Ruins Culture.

We Talk So Abstractly About Poetry Because All Of Us Are Usually Bad Poets.

Some Are Made Modest By Great Praise, Others Insolent.

It Is Hard Enough To Remember My Opinions, Without Also Remembering My Reasons For Them!

It Is Our Taste That Decides Against Christianity Now, No Longer Our Reasons.

Everything Matters. Nothing's Important.

The Weak And Misbegotten Shall Perish: First Principle Of Our Brotherly Love. And They Shall Be Given Every Assistance.

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

Character Is Determined More By The Lack Of Certain Experiences Than By Those One Has Had.

Rash Actions Are Seldom Committed In Isolation. With The First Rash Action We Always Do Too Much. So We Usually Go On To Commit Asecond One--and Then We Do Too Little.

All Great Things Must First Wear Terrifying And Monstrous Masks, In Order To Inscribe Themselves On The Hearts Of Humanity.

I Want To Learn More And More To See As Beautiful What Is Necessary In Things:—then I Shall Be One Of Those Who Make Things Beautiful. Amor Fati: Let That Be My Love From Henceforth!

The Reasons And Purposes For Habits Are Always Lies That Are Added Only After Some People Begin To Attack These Habits And To Ask For Reasons And Purposes. At This Point The Conservatives Of All Ages Are Thoroughly Dishonest: They Add Lies.

He Divines Remedies Against Injuries; He Knows How To Turn Serious Accidents To His Own Advantage; Whatever Does Not Kill Him Makes Him Stronger

Exhaustion Is The Shortest Way To Equality And Fraternity.

Whatever We Think About And Question A Lot Becomes Questionable.

There Is No More Dreary Or More Repulsive Creature Than The Man Who Has Evaded His Genius.

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

Men Are Even Lazier Than They Are Timorous, And What They Fear Most Is The Troubles With Which Any Unconditional Honesty And Nudity Would Burden Them.

The Greeks, With Their Truly Healthy Culture, Have Once And For All Justified Philosophy Simply By Having Engaged In It, And Having Engaged In It More Fully Than Any Other People.

In The End We Love Our Desire And Not What It Is That We Desire.

Error Has Made Man So Deep, Sensitive, And Inventive That He Has Put Forth Such Blossoms As Religions And Arts. Pure Knowledge Could Not Have Been Capable Of It.

People Buy Their Necessities In Shops And Have To Pay Dearly For Them Because They Have To Assist In Paying For What Is Also On Sale There But Only Rarely Finds Purchasers: The Luxury And Amusement Goods. So It Is That Luxury Continually Imposes A Tax On The Simple People Who Have To Do Without It.

If You Are Too Weak To Give Yourselves Your Own Law, Then A Tyrant Shall Lay His Yoke Upon You And Say: "obey! Clench Your Teeth And Obey!" And All Good And Evil Shall Be Drowned In Obedience To Him.

The Magnitude Of A Progress Is Gauged By The Greatness Of The Sacrifice That It Requires.

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