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Here One Must Think Profoundly To The Very Basis And Resist All Sentimental Weakness: Life Itself Is Essentially Appropriation, Injury, Conquest Of The Strange And Weak, Suppression, Severity, Obtrusion Of Peculiar Forms, Incorporation, And At The Least, Putting It Mildest, Exploitation - But Why Should One For Ever Use Precisely These Words On Which For Ages A Disparaging Purpose Has Been Stamped?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Here One Must Think Profoundly To The Very Basis And Resist All Sentimental Weakness: Life Itself Is Essentially Appropriation, Injury, Conquest Of The Strange And Weak, Suppression, Severity, Obtrusion Of Peculiar Forms, Incorporation, And At The Least, Putting It Mildest, Exploitation - But Why Should One For Ever Use Precisely These Words On Which For Ages A Disparaging Purpose Has Been Stamped?

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The Abdomen Is The Reason Why Man Does Not Readily Take Himself To Be A God.

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Strength Is The Morality Of The Man Who Stands Out From The Rest, And It Is Mine.

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Whoever Regards Human Beings As A Herd And Flees Them As Swiftly As He Can Will No Doubt Be Overtaken By Them And Impaled On Theirhorns.

Be Careful, Lest In Casting Out Your Demon You Exorcise The Best Thing In You.

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

Having Become Conscious Of The Truth He Once Perceived, Man Now Sees Only The Awfulness Or The Absurdity Of Existence, He Now Understands The Symbolic Element In Ophelia's Fate, He Now Recognizes The Wisdom Of The Woodland God, Silenus: It Nauseates Him.

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No One Can Construct For You The Bridge Upon Which Precisely You Must Cross The Stream Of Life, No One But You Yourself Alone.

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Man Is Something That Is To Be Surpassed.

I Change Too Quickly: My Today Refutes My Yesterday. When I Ascend I Often Jump Over Steps, And No Step Forgives Me That.

And Those Who Were Seen Dancing Were Thought To Be Insane By Those Who Could Not Hear The Music.

The Most Perfidious Way Of Harming A Cause Consists Of Defending It Deliberately With Faulty Arguments.

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It Is Not The Strengths, But The Durations Of Great Sentiments That Make Great Men.

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

A Joke Is An Epigram On The Death Of A Feeling.

Enjoying Praise Is In Some People Merely A Civility Of The Heart--and Just The Opposite Of A Vanity Of The Spirit.

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

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For Out Of Fear And Need Each Religion Is Born, Creeping Into Existence On The Byways Or Reason.

Life Is That Which Must Overcome Itself Again And Again

Again And Again

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What Good Is A Book That Does Not Even Transport Us Beyond All Books?

Among Human Beings There Is No Greater Banality Than Death. Second In Order, Because It Is Possible To Die Without Being Born, Comes Birth, And Next Comes Marriage.

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The Same Passions In Man And Woman Nonetheless Differ In Tempo; Hence Man And Woman Do Not Cease Misunderstanding One Another.

The Great Advantage In Noble Parentage Is That Enables One To Endure Poverty More Easily.

Without Meaning, Without Substance, Without Aim: A Mere 'public Opinion'.

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.

If One Uses One's Intellect To Become Master Over The Unlimited Emotions, It May Produce A Sorry And Diversionary Effect Upon The Intellect.

Wherever On Earth The Religious Neurosis Has Appeared We Find It Tied To Three Dangerous Dietary Demands: Solitude, Fasting, And Sexual Abstinence.

And It Is The Great Noon When Man Stands At The Midpoint Of His Course Between Beast And Superman And Celebrates His Way To The Evening As His Highest Hope: For It Is The Way To A New Morning.

No Artist Tolerates Reality.

No One Lies So Boldly As The Man Who Is Indignant.

Men Have Hitherto Treated Women Like Birds Which Have Strayed Down To Them From The Heights; As Something More Delicate, More Fragile, More Savage, Stranger, Sweeter, Soulful--but As Something Which Has To Be Caged Up So That It Shall Not Fly Away.

Philosophers Are Not Honest Enough In Their Work, Although They Make A Lot Of Virtuous Noise When The Problem Of Truthfulness Is Touched Even Remotely. They All Pose As If They Had Discovered And Reached Their Real Opinions Through The Self-development Of A Cold, Pure, Divinely Unconcerned Dialectic...; While At Bottom It Is An Assumption, A Hunch, Indeed A Kind Of "inspiration" Most Often A Desire Of The Heart That Has Been Filtered And Made Abstract That They Defend With Reasons They Have Sought After The Fact.

Against War It May Be Said That It Makes The Victor Stupid And The Vanquished Revengeful.

A Matter That Becomes Clear Ceases To Concern Us.

Clever People Are Never Credited With Their Follies: What A Deprivation Of Human Rights!

The Quality Of A Marriage Is Proven By Its Ability To Tolerate An Occasional "exception.

Marriage Was Contrived For Ordinary People, For People Who Are Capable Of Neither Great Love Nor Great Friendship, Which Is To Say, For Most People--but Also For Those Exceptionally Rare Ones Who Are Capable Of Love As Well As Of Friendship.

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

Perhaps Man Will Rise Ever Higher As Soon As He Ceases To Flow Out Into A God.

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

Let Old Ones Go. Dont Be A Memory-monger! Once You Were Young──now You Are Even Younger.

Woman Is Essentially Unpeaceful, Like The Cat, However Well She May Have Trained Herself To Present An Appearance Of Peace.

It Takes Just Such Painful And Terrible Things To Occur For The Great Emancipation To Take Place.

All Parties Attempt To Represent Important Things That Have Developed Outside Themselves As Unimportant, And Where They Fail In This They Assail Those Things All The More Bitterly The More Admirable They Are.

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

A Good Aphorism Is Too Hard For The Tooth Of Time, And Is Not Worn Away By All The Centuries, Although It Serves As Food For Every Epoch. Hence It Is The Greatest Paradox In Literature, The Imperishable In The Midst Of Change, The Nourishment Which Always Remains Highly Valued, As Salt Does, And Never Becomes Stupid Like Salt.

Those With Certain Temperaments Find No Way To Endure Themselves Except By Striving Towards Going Under.

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Danger Alone Acquaints Us With Our Own Resources, Our Virtues, Our Armor And Weapons, Our Spirit, And Forces Us To Be Strong.

When We Stand The Truth On Its Head We Generally Fail To Notice That Our Head Is Not Standing Where It Should Be Standing Either.

To Think Historically Is Almost The Same Thing Now As If In All Ages History Had Been Made According To Theory.

Everything Good Is The Transmutation Of Something Evil: Every God Has A Devil For A Father.

The Ability To Suffer Is A Small Matter - Weak Women And Even Slaves Can Acheive Virtuosity In That.

I Do Not Know What Meaning Classical Studies Could Have For Our Time If They Were Not Untimely That Is To Say, Acting Counter To Our Time And Thereby Acting On Our Time And, Let Us Hope, For The Benefit Of A Time To Come.

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.

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