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Historical Refutation As The Definitive Refutation.- In Former Times, One Sought To Prove That There Is No God - Today One Indicates How The Belief That There Is A God Arose And How This Belief Acquired Its Weight And Importance: A Counter-proof That There Is No God Thereby Becomes Superfluous.- When In Former Times One Had Refuted The 'proofs Of The Existence Of God' Put Forward, There Always Remained The Doubt Whether Better Proofs Might Not Be Adduced Than Those Just Refuted: In Those Days Atheists Did Not Know How To Make A Clean Sweep.

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Historical Refutation As The Definitive Refutation.- In Former Times, One Sought To Prove That There Is No God - Today One Indicates How The Belief That There Is A God Arose And How This Belief Acquired Its Weight And Importance: A Counter-proof That There Is No God Thereby Becomes Superfluous.- When In Former Times One Had Refuted The 'proofs Of The Existence Of God' Put Forward, There Always Remained The Doubt Whether Better Proofs Might Not Be Adduced Than Those Just Refuted: In Those Days Atheists Did Not Know How To Make A Clean Sweep.

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We Must Be Cruel As Well As Compassionate: Let Us Guard Against Becoming Poorer Than Nature Is!

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What Doesn't Kill You Make You Stronger.

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Generally Speaking, The Greater A Woman's Beauty, The Greater Her Modesty.

This Demand Follows From An Insight That I Was The First To Articulate: That There Are No Moral Facts.

Wisdom Sets Bounds Even To Knowledge.

One Loves Ultimately One's Desires, Not The Thing Desired.

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That Which Needs To Be Proved Cannot Be Worth Much.

'he Who Seeks May Easily Get Lost Himself. It Is A Crime To Go Apart And Be Alone.' Thus Speaks The Herd.

He Who Does Not Desire Much More From Things Than Knowledge Of Them Easily Makes Peace With His Soul.

Man, A Hybrid Of Plant And Ghost.

Growth In Wisdom Can Be Measured Precisely By Decline In Bile.

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Even Truthfulness Is But One Means To Knowledge, A Ladder--but Not The Ladder.

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Whoever Has Overthrown An Existing Law Of Custom Has Always First Been Accounted A Bad Man: But When, As Did Happen, The Law Could Not Afterwards Be Reinstated And This Fact Was Accepted, The Predicate Gradually Changed; - History Treats Almost Exclusively Of These Bad Men Who Subsequently Became Good Men!

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

Every Habit Makes Our Hand More Witty And Our Wit Less Handy.

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

All Words Are Prejudices.

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This Sign I Give You: Every People Speaks Its Tongue Of Good And Evil, Which The Neighbor Does Not Understand. It Has Invented Its Own Language Of Customs And Rights.

To Use The Same Words Is Not A Sufficient Guarantee Of Understanding; One Must Use The Same Words For The Same Genus Of Inward Experience; Ultimately One Must Have One's Experiences In Common.

That Lies Should Be Necessary To Life Is Part And Parcel Of The Terrible And Questionable Character Of Existence.

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Women And Egoistic Artists Entertain A Feeling Towards Science That Is Something Composed Of Envy And Sentimentality.

Real Dancers Are The Ones Who Can Hear The Music In Their Soul.

At The Bottom Of All These Noble Races The Beast Of Prey, The Splendid Blond Beast, Prowling About Avidly In Search Of Spoil And Victory.

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Every Philosophy Is The Philosophy Of Some Stage Of Life.

Nothing Can Be Done About It: Every Master Has But A Single Pupil--and He Will Not Stay Loyal To Him--for He Is Also Destined To Become A Master.

When Zarathustra Was Alone . . . He Said To His Heart: "could It Be Possible! This Old Saint In The Forest Hath Not Yet Heard Of It, That God Is Dead!"

Why Is It That Wellnesses Are Not As Contagious As Illnesses--generally Speaking, But Also Especially Regarding Taste? Or Are There Epidemics Of Health?

He Who Strays From The Customary Becomes A Sacrifice To The Extraordinary; He Who Keeps To The Customary Becomes Its Slave. He Iscondemned To Perish In Either Case.

Three Metamorphoses Of The Spirit I Relate To You: How The Spirit Becomes A Camel; And The Camel, A Lion; And The Lion, Finally, A Child.

Poets Are Shameless With Their Experiences: They Exploit Them.

Or Shall I Go Out As A Light Does, Not First Blown Out By The Wind, But Grown Tired And Weary Of Itself - A Burnt Out Light? Or Finally, Shall I Blow Myself Out, So As Not To Burn Out?

Jealous Is Every Virtue Of The Others, And A Dreadful Thing Is Jealousy. Even Virtues May Succumb By Jealousy.

My Formula For Greatness In A Human Being Is Amor Fati: That One Wants Nothing To Be Different, Not Forward, Not Backward, Not In All Eternity. Not Merely Bear What Is Necessary, Still Less Conceal It—all Idealism Is Mendaciousness In The Face Of What Is Necessary—but Love It

To Go On Vegetating In Cowardly Dependence On Physicians And Machinations, After The Meaning Of Life, The Right To Life, Has Been Lost, That Ought To Prompt A Profound Contempt In Society.

Meaning Of Life

I Awoke You From Your Sleep Because I Saw That You Were Having A Nightmare. And Now You Are Cross And Say To Me: "what Are We Supposed To Do Now? Everything Is Still Night!" You Ingrates! You Should Go To Sleep Again And Dream Better.

He Who Lives As Children Live - Who Does Not Struggle For His Bread And Does Not Believe That His Actions Possess Any Ultimate Significance - Remains Childlike.

When We Are Tired, We Are Attacked By Ideas We Conquered Long Ago.

The Great Poet Draws His Creations Only From Out Of His Own Reality.

I Notice That Autumn Is More The Season Of The Soul Than Of Nature.

I Love Him Whose Soul Is Deep Even In The Wounding, And May Succumb Through A Small Matter: Thus Goeth He Willingly Over The Bridge.

What Convinces Is Not Necessarily True-it Is Merely Convincing: A Note For Asses.

You Say It Is The Good Cause That Hallows Even War? I Say Unto You: It Is The Good War That Hallows Any Cause.

The Less Men Are Fettered By Tradition, The Greater Becomes The Inward Activity Of Their Motives, And Greater Again In Proportion To Their Outer Restlessness.

What Do You Plan To Do In The Land Of The Sleepers? You Have Been Floating In A Sea Of Solitude, And The Sea Has Borne You Up. At Long Last, Are You Ready For Dry Land? Are You Ready To Drag Yourself Ashore?

There Did He Sit Shrivelled In His Chimney Corner, Fretting On Account Of His Weak Legs, World Weary, Will Weary, And One Day He Suffocated Through His Excessive Pity.

Art Is The Highest Task And The Proper Metaphysical Activity Of This Life.

There Is Sense In Hoping For Recognition In A Distant Future Only When We Take It For Granted That Mankind Will Remain Essentially Unchanged, And That Whatever Is Great Is Not For One Age Only But Will Be Looked Upon As Great For All Time.

Woman Was God's Second Mistake.

One Man Runs To His Neighbor Because He Is Looking For Himself, And Another Because He Wants To Loose Himself. Your Bad Love Of Yourselves Makes Solitude A Prison For You.

Whoever Does Not Have A Good Father Should Procure One.

The Priest Knows, As Every One Knows, That There Is No Longer Any "god," Or Any "sinner," Or Any "saviour" That "free Will" And The "moral Order Of The World" Are Lies : Serious Reflection, The Profound Self Conquest Of The Spirit, Allow No Man To Pretend That He Does Not Know It.

At Present I Am Light, Now I Fly, Now I See Myself Below Me, Now A God Dances Through Me.

How Poisonous, How Crafty, How Bad, Does Every Long War Make One, Which Cannot Be Waged Openly By Means Of Force!

There Are No Moral Phenomena At All, But Only A Moral Interpretation Of Phenomena.

He Who Cannot Command Himself Should Obey. And Many Can Command Themselves, But Much Is Still Lacking Before They Can Obey Themselves.

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.

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

The Dyed-in-the-wool Teacher Takes Everything Seriously Only With Respect To His Students--himself Included.

Every Virtue Has Its Privilege: For Example, That Of Contributing Its Own Little Bundle Of Wood To The Funeral Pyre Of One Condemned.

All Things Are Subject To Interpretation Whichever Interpretation Prevails At A Given Time Is A Function Of Power And Not Truth.

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All Of Life Is A Dispute Over Taste And Tasting.

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