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How Can A Man Know Himself? He Is A Thing Dark And Veiled; And If The Hare Has Seven Skins, Man Can Slough Off Seventy Times Seven And Still Not Be Able To Say: "this Is Really You, This Is No Longer Outer Shell.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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How Can A Man

Friedrich Nietzsche

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How Can A Man Know Himself? He Is A Thing Dark And Veiled; And If The Hare Has Seven Skins, Man Can Slough Off Seventy Times Seven And Still Not Be Able To Say: "this Is Really You, This Is No Longer Outer Shell.

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It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable; It Is Precisely Thereby That It Attracts The More Subtle Minds. It Seems That The Hundred-times-refuted Theory Of The "free Will" Owes Its Persistence To This Charm Alone; Some One Is Always Appearing Who Feels Himself Strong Enough To Refute It.

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Unexplained, Obscure Matters Are Regarded As More Important Than Explained, Clear Ones.

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What Is Evil?-whatever Springs From Weakness.

Where There Is The Tree Of Knowledge, There Is Always Paradise: So Say The Most Ancient And Most Modern Serpents.

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Whoever Does Not Know How To Find The Way To His Ideal Lives More Frivolously And Impudently Than The Man Without An Ideal.

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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.

The Press, The Machine, The Railway, The Telegraph Are Premises Whose Thousand-year Conclusion No One Has Yet Dared To Draw.

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That Roguish And Cheerful Vice, Politeness.

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Even In The Lust Of Knowledge I Feel Only My Will's Delight In Begetting And Becoming; And If There Be Innocence In My Knowledge It Is Because My Procreative Will Is In It.

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And So Do You Suppose It Must Be A Piece-work Because It Has Been Given To You (and Could Only Be Given To You) In Pieces?

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Those People Have No Real Interest In A Science Who Only Begin To Get Excited About It When They Themselves Have Made Discoveries In It.

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My Idea Of Paradise Is A Straight Line To Goal

After Coming Into Contact With A Religious Man I Always Feel I Must Wash My Hands.

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Objectivity And Justice Have Nothing To Do With One Another.

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Better Know Nothing Than Half-know Many Things.

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That Which Needs To Be Proved Cannot Be Worth Much.

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I Do Not Give Alms; I Am Not Poor Enough For That.

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Books For General Reading Always Smell Bad; The Odor Of Common People Hangs Around Them.

The English Are A Nation Of Consummate Cant.

The Better The State Is Established, The Fainter Is Humanity. To Make The Individual Uncomfortable, That Is My Task.

Man Is The Cruelest Animal. At Tragedies, Bullfights, And Crucifixions He Has So Far Felt Best On Earth; And When He Invented Hell For Himself, Behold, That Was His Very Heaven.

Wherever Primitive Man Put Up A Word, He Believed He Had Made A Discovery. How Utterly Mistaken He Really Was! He Had Touched A Problem, And While Supposing He Had Solved It, He Had Created And Obstacle To Its Solution. Now, With Every New Knowledge We Stumble Over Flint-like And Petrified Words And, In So Doing, Break A Leg Sooner Than A Word.

An Attack On The Roots Of Passion Means An Attack On The Roots Of Life.

I Love All Who Are Like Heavy Drops Falling One By One Out Of The Dark Cloud That Lowereth Over Man: They Herald The Coming Of The Lightning, And Succumb As Heralds.

Those Who Cannot Understand How To Put Their Thoughts On Ice Should Not Enter Into The Heat Of Debate.

The Humanity Of Famous Intellectuals Lies In Being Wrong With Gracious Courtesy When Dealing With Those Who Are Not Famous.

Truth As Circe. - Error Has Transformed Animals Into Men; Is Truth Perhaps Capable Of Changing Man Back Into An Animal?

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They Call You Heartless; But You Have A Heart And I Love You For Being Ashamed To Show It.

He Who Does Not Need To Lie Is Proud Of Not Being A Liar.

One Is Not Converted To Christianity; One Must Be Morbid Enough For It.

Every Man Is A Creative Cause Of What Happens, A Primum Mobile With An Original Movement.

In A Certain State It Is Indecent To Live Longer.

Every Man In Creating The Beautiful Appearance Of The Dream Worlds Is A Perfect Artist.

Speaking Is A Beautiful Folly; With That Man Dances Over All Things.

Could One Count Such Dilettantes And Old Spinsters As That Mawkish Apostle Of Virginity, Mainlander, As A Genuine German? In The Last Analysis He Probably Was A Jew (all Jews Become Mawkish When They Moralize).

The Snake Which Cannot Cast Its Skin Has To Die. As Well The Minds Which Are Prevented From Changing Their Opinions; They Cease To Be Mind.

I Welcome All The Signs Indicating That A More Manly And Warlike Age Is Commencing, Which Will, Above All, Bring Heroism Again Into Honour!

What Is Bad? -everything That Arises From Weakness.

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One Who Is Unassuming In Dealing With People Exhibits His Arrogance All The More Strongly In Dealing With Things (city, State, Society, Age, Mankind). That Is His Revenge.

It Is Certain That The Jew, If He Desired-or If They Were Driven To It, As The Antisemites Seem To Wish-could Now Have The Ascendancy, Nay, Literally The Supremacy, Over Europe; That They Are Not Working Or Planning For That End Is Equally Sure... The Resourcefulness Of The Modern Jews, Both In Mind And Soul, Is Extraordinary.

Marriage Marks The End Of Many Short Follies - Being One Long Stupidity.

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