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I Can Tell By My Own Reaction To It That This Book Is Harmful." But Let Him Only Wait And Perhaps One Day He Will Admit To Himself That This Same Book Has Done Him A Great Service By Bringing Out The Hidden Sickness Of His Heart And Making It Visible.— Altered Opinions Do Not Alter A Man’s Character (or Do So Very Little); But They Do Illuminate Individual Aspects Of The Constellation Of His Personality Which With A Different Constellation Of Opinions Had Hitherto Remained Dark And Unrecognizable.

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I Can Tell By My Own Reaction To It That This Book Is Harmful." But Let Him Only Wait And Perhaps One Day He Will Admit To Himself That This Same Book Has Done Him A Great Service By Bringing Out The Hidden Sickness Of His Heart And Making It Visible.— Altered Opinions Do Not Alter A Man’s Character (or Do So Very Little); But They Do Illuminate Individual Aspects Of The Constellation Of His Personality Which With A Different Constellation Of Opinions Had Hitherto Remained Dark And Unrecognizable.

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The Value Of A Man Can Only Be Measured With Regard To Other Men.

Master-morality And Slave-morality.

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In The Consciousness Of The Truth He Has Perceived, Man Now Sees Everywhere Only The Awfulness Or The Absurdity Of Existence And Loathing Seizes Him.

Every Great Love Brings With It The Cruel Idea Of Killing The Object Of Its Love So That It May Be Removed Once And For All From The Wicked Game Of Change: For Love Dreads Change Even More Than Annihilation.

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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.

In The Beautiful, Man Sets Himself Up As The Standard Of Perfection; In Select Cases He Worships Himself In It. Man Believes That The World Itself Is Filled With Beauty -he Forgets That It Is He Who Has Created It. He Alone Has Bestowed Beauty Upon The World -alas! Only A Very Human, An All Too Human, Beauty.

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I Know My Fate. One Day My Name Will Be Associated With The Memory Of Something Tremendous — A Crisis Without Equal On Earth, The Most Profound Collision Of Conscience, A Decision That Was Conjured Up Against Everything That Had Been Believed, Demanded, Hallowed So Far. I Am No Man, I Am Dynamite.

The Most Spiritual Human Beings, Assuming They Are The Most Courageous, Also Experience By Far The Most Painful Tragedies: But It Is Precisely For This Reason That They Honor Life, Because It Brings Against Them Its Most Formidable Weapons.

We Should Be A Mirror Of Being: We Are God In Miniature.

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What Is The Difference Between Someone Who Is Convinced And One Who Is Deceived? None, If He Is Well Deceived.

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Freedom Is The Will To Be Responsible For Ourselves. It Is To Preserve The Distance Which Separates Us From Other Men. To Grow More Indifferent To Hardship, To Severity, To Privation, And Even To Life Itself.

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

If You Stare Into The Abyss Long Enough The Abyss Stares Back At You.

A Man Who Has Depths In His Shame Meets His Destiny And His Delicate Decisions Upon Paths Which Few Ever Reach . . .

To The Mediocre, Mediocrity Is A Form Of Happiness.

Since Men Do Not Really Respect Anything Unless It Was Established Long Ago And Has Developed Slowly Over Time, Those Who Want Tokeep On Living After Their Death Must Take Worry Not Only About Their Future Generations But Even More About Their Past: That Is Why Tyrants Of All Kinds (including Tyrannical Artists And Politicians) Like To Do Violence To History, So That It Will Appear As A Preparation And Stepladder To Themselves.

The Soul Must Have Its Chosen Sewers To Carry Away Its Ordure. This Function Is Performed By Persons, Relationships, Professions, The Fatherland, The World, Or Finally, For The Really Arrogant - I Mean Our Modern Pessimists - By The Good God Himself.

Learn To See - Accustoming The Eye To Calm, To Patience, To Letting-things-come-to-it; Learning To Defer Judgment, To Encircle And Encompass The Question On All Sides.

For A Tree To Become Tall It Must Grow Tough Roots Among The Rocks.

We Must Take Precautions Against Being Prematurely Honed Sharp--since At The Same Time We Are Being Prematurely Honed Thin.

I Looked For Great Men, But All I Found Were The Apes Of Their Ideals.

To Produce Music Is Also In A Sense To Produce Children.

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Creation Is The Great Redemption From Suffering And All Life's Growing Light. But The Creator Must Be Suffering If Needed And Accept Much Change.

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We Have Art In Order Not To Die Of The Truth.

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The Sexes Deceive Themselves About One Another: The Reason Being That At Bottom They Honor And Love Only Themselves (or Their Ownideal, To Express It More Agreeably). Thus Man Wants Woman To Be Peaceable--but Woman Is Essentially, Like The Cat, Not Peaceable, However Well She May Have Trained Herself To Assume The Appearance Of Peace.

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

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Light For Some Time To Come Will Have To Be Called Darkness.

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Compassion For The Friend Should Conceal Itself Under A Hard Shell.

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Love Forgives The Lover Even His Lust.

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In A Certain State It Is Indecent To Live Longer.

Extreme Positions Are Not Succeeded By Moderate Ones But By Extreme Positions Of The Opposite Kind.

Of What Is Great One Must Either Be Silent Or Speak With Greatness. With Greatness--that Means Cynically And With Innocence.

The Best Friend Will Probably Acquire The Best Wife, Because A Good Marriage Is Founded On The Talent For Friendship.

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

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

Sometimes It Just Takes Stronger Eyeglasses To Cure Those Who Are In Love--and Someone With The Ability To Imagine A Face Or A Figure Twenty Years Older Might Perhaps Pass Through Life Quite Undisturbed.

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Life Without Music Is No Life At All.

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Of All Evil I Deem You Capable: Therefore I Want The Good From You.

We Do Not By Any Means Think It Desirable That The Kingdom Of Righteousness And Peace Should Be Established On Earth (because Under Any Circumstances It Would Be The Kingdom Of The Profoundest Mediocrity And Chinaism); We Rejoice In All Men, Who Like Ourselves Love Danger, War And Adventure, Who Do Not Make Compromises, Nor Let Themselves Be Captured, Conciliated And Stunted; We Count Ourselves Among The Conquerors; We Ponder Over The Need Of A New Order Of Things, Even Of A New Slavery For Every Strengthening And Elevation Of The Type "man" Also Involves A New Form Of Slavery.

The Destiny Of Mankind Is Arranged For Happy Moments Every Life Has Such But Not For Happy Times.

What Is The Vanity Of The Vainest Man Compared With The Vanity Which The Most Modest Possesses When, In The Midst Of Nature And The World, He Feels Himself To Be Man!

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

The Most Common Sort Of Lie Is The One Uttered To One's Self.

Knowing Who You Are

We Want To Be Poets Of Our Life First Of All In The Smallest Most Everyday Matters.

I Am Driven Out Of Fatherlands And Motherlands. Thus I Now Love Only My Children's Land, Yet Undiscovered, In The Farthest Sea; For This I Bid My Sails Search And Search.

You Say 'i' And You Are Proud Of This Word. But Greater Than This- Although You Will Not Believe In It - Is Your Body And Its Great Intelligence, Which Does Not Say 'i' But Performs 'i'.

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.

... Hitherto We Have Been Permitted To Seek Beauty Only In The Morally Good - A Fact Which Sufficiently Accounts For Our Having Found So Little Of It And Having Had To Seek About For Imaginary Beauties Without Backbone! - As Surely As The Wicked Enjoy A Hundred Kinds Of Happiness Of Which The Virtuous Have No Inkling, So Too They Possess A Hundred Kinds Of Beauty; And Many Of Them Have Not Yet Been Discovered.

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

To Become The Founder Of A New Religion One Must Be Psychologically Infallible In One's Knowledge Of A Certain Average Type Of Souls Who Have Not Yet Recognized That They Belong Together.

To Demand Of Strength That It Should Not Express Itself As Strength, That It Should Not Be A Desire To Overcome, A Desire To Throw Down, A Desire To Become Master, A Thirst For Enemies And Resistances And Triumphs, Is Just As Absurd As To Demand Of Weakness That It Should Express Itself As Strength.

They Muddy The Water, To Make It Seem Deep.

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

Life, And You, And I, And All Of Us Together Became For A While Interesing To Ourselves Once More.

We, However, Want To Become Those We Are--human Beings Who Are New, Unique, Incomparable, Who Give Themselves Laws, Who Create Themselves. To That End We Must Become The Best Learners And Discoverers Of Everything That Is Lawful And Necessary In The World: We Must Become Physicists In Order To Be Able To Be Creators In This Sense--while Hitherto All Valuations And Ideals Have Been Based On Ignorance Of Physics Or Were Constructed So As To Contradict It. Therefore: Long Live Physics! And Even More So That Which Compels Us To Turn To Physics--our Honesty!

You Never Exist Quite So Much As When You Are Not Thinking

The Architect Represents Neither A Dionysian Nor An Apollinian Condition: Here It Is The Mighty Act Of Will, The Will Which Moves Mountains, The Intoxication Of The Strong Will, Which Demands Artistic Expression. The Most Powerful Men Have Always Inspired The Architects; The Architect Has Always Been Influenced By Power.

Everyone Who Has Ever Built Anywhere A "new Heaven" First Found The Power Thereto In His Own Hell.

The Devil Has The Broadest Perspectives For God; Therefore, He Keeps So Far Away From God -- The Devil Being The Most Ancient Friend Of Wisdom

Every Society Has A Tendency To Reduce It's Opponents To Caricatures.

Love, Too, Has To Be Learned.

He Who Bears Injustice Alone Is Terrible To Behold.

One Is Proud To Worship When He Cannot Be An Idol.

If It Is True To Say Of The Lazy That They Kill Time, Then It Is Greatly To Be Feared That An Era Which Sees Its Salvation In Public Opinion, This Is To Say Private Laziness, Is A Time That Really Will Be Killed: I Mean That It Will Be Struck Out Of The History Of The True Liberation Of Life. How Reluctant Later Generations Will Be To Have Anything To Do With The Relics Of An Era Ruled, Not By Living Men, But By Pseudo-men Dominated By Public Opinion.

The Command 'become Hard! ', The Deep Conviction That All Creators Are Hard, Is The Really Distinctive Sign Of A Dionysian Nature.

Rendering Oneself Unarmed When One Had Been The Best-armed, Out Of A Height Of Feeling-that Is The Means To Real Peace, Which Must Always Rest On A Peace Of Mind.

One Must Give Value To Their Existence By Behaving As If Ones Very Existence Were A Work Of Art.

There Is Not Enough Love And Goodness In The World To Permit Giving Any Of It Away To Imaginary Beings.

I Fear Animals Regard Man As A Creature Of Their Own Kind Which Has In A Highly Dangerous Fashion Lost Its Healthy Animal Reason - As The Mad Animal, As The Laughing Animal, As The Weeping Animal, As The Unhappy Animal.

Higher Than "thou Shalt" Stands "i Will" (the Heroes), And Higher Than "i Will" Stands "i Am" (the Greek Gods).

We Believe That We Know Something About The Things Themselves When We Speak Of Trees, Colors, Snow, And Flowers; And Yet We Possess Nothing But Metaphors For Things - Metaphors Which Correspond In No Way To The Original Entities.

Ah, How Little You Know Of Human Happiness - You Comfortable And Benevolent People! For Happiness And Unhappiness Are Brother And Sister - Or Even Twins Who Grow Up Together - Or In Your Case - Remain Small Together!

The Hour-hand Of Life.

What Was A Lie In The Father Becomes A Conviction In The Son.

I Climb Upon The Highest Mountains, Laughing At All Tragedies - Whether Real Or Imaginary.

There They Laugh: They Do Not Understand Me; I Am Not The Mouth For These Ears.

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.

To Find Everything Profound - That Is An Inconvenient Trait. It Makes One Strain One's Eyes All The Time, And In The End One Finds More Than One Might Have Wished.

Someone Said: "i Have Been Prejudiced Against Myself From My Earliest Childhood: Hence I Find Some Truth In All Blame And Some Stupidity In All Praise. I Generally Estimate Praise Too Poorly And Blame Too Highly.

And Once You Are Awake, You Shall Remain Awake Eternally.

The Word 'christianity' Is Already A Misunderstanding - In Reality There Has Been Only One Christian, And He Died On The Cross.

Speaking Generally, Punishment Hardens And Numbs, It Produces Concentration, It Sharpens The Consciousness Of Alienation, It Strengthens The Power Of Resistance.

Disobedience- That Is The Nobility Of Slaves.

War Has Always Been The Grand Sagacity Of Every Spirit Which Has Grown Too Inward And Too Profound; Its Curative Power Lies Even In The Wounds One Receives.

Whom Do You Call Bad?--those Who Always Want To Induce Shame.

It Is Very Noble Hypocrisy Not To Talk Of One's Self.

Everywhere Resoundeth The Voices Of Those Who Preach Death; And The Earth Is Full Of Those To Whom Death Hath To Be Preached.

The Best Of All Things Is Something Entirely Outside Your Grasp: Not To Be Born, Not To Be, To Be Nothing. But The Second-best Thing For You - Is To Die Soon.

Art Is Essentially The Affirmation, The Blessing, And The Deification Of Existence.

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We Have To Learn How To Come Out Of Unclean Situations Cleaner Than We Were, And Even How To Wash Ourselves With Dirty Water Whenwe Need To.

All Sciences Are Now Under The Obligation To Prepare The Ground For The Future Task Of The Philosopher, Which Is To Solve The Problem Of Value, To Determine The True Hierarchy Of Values.

The Best Belongs To Me And Mine; And If We Are Not Given It, We Take It: The Best Food, The Purest Sky, The Most Robust Thoughts, The Fairest Women!

In Every Form Of Womanly Love Something Of Motherly Love Also Comes To Light.

[heraclitus] Concluded That Coming-to-be Itself Could Not Be Anything Evil Or Unjust.

What Does Not Destroy Me, Makes Me Stronger.

God Is A Thought Who Makes Crooked All That Is Straight.

Whoever No Longer Finds Greatness In God No Longer Finds It Anywhere--he Must Either Deny It Or Create It.

Now Know I Well What People Sought Formerly Above All Else When They Sought Teachers Of Virtue. Good Sleep They Sought For Themselves, And Poppy-head Virtues To Promote It! To All Those Be-lauded Sages Of The Academic Chairs, Wisdom Was Sleep Without Dreams: They Knew No Higher Significance Of Life. Even At Present, To Be Sure, There Are Some Like This Preacher Of Virtue, And Not Always So Honorable: But Their Time Is Past. And Not Much Longer Do They Stand: There They Already Lie. Blessed Are Those Drowsy Ones: For They Shall Soon Nod To Sleep.-thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Man Is The Only Animal That Must Be Encouraged To Live.

This Woman Is Beautiful And Clever: But How Much Cleverer She Would Have Become If She Were Not Beautiful!

We Set No Special Value On The Possession Of A Virtue Until We Percieve That It Is Entirely Lacking In Our Adversary.

The First Opinion That Occurs To Us When We Are Suddenly Asked About Something Is Usually Not Our Own But Only The Current One Pertaining To Our Class, Position, Or Parentage; Our Own Opinions Seldom Swim On The Surface.

Judgments, Value Judgments Concerning Life, For Or Against, Can In The Last Resort Never Be True: They Possess Value Only As Symptoms, They Come Into Consideration Only As Symptoms - In Themselves Such Judgments Are Stupidities.

Enjoyment And Innocence Are The Most Bashful Things: Both Do Not Want To Be Sought.

Whatever Harm The Evil May Do, The Harm Done By The Good Is The Most Harmful Harm.

Once Upon A Time, In Some Out Of The Way Corner Of That Universe Which Is Dispersed Into Numberless Twinkling Solar Systems, There Was A Star Upon Which Clever Beasts Invented Knowing.

The Good Displeases Us When We Are Not Up To It.

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

One Begins To Mistrust Very Clever People When They Become Embarrassed.

One Hears But One Does Not Seek; One Takes -- One Does Not Ask Who Gives; A Thought Flashes Up Like Lightning, It Comes Of Necessity And Unfalteringly Formed.

I Am One Thing, My Writings Are Another.

Christianity, Alcohol The Two Great Means Of Corruption.

On The Heights It Is Warmer Than Those In The Valley Imagine.

No Price Is Too High To Pay For The Privilege Of Owning Yourself.

A Thing Can Only Live Through A Pious Illusion.

All Signs Of Superhuman Nature Appear In Man As Illness Or Insanity.

And Like A Wind Shall I One Day Blow Amongst Them And With My Spirit Take Away Their Soul's Breath: Thus My Future Wills It.

Through Searching Out Origins, One Becomes A Crab. The Historian Looks Backwards, And Finally He Also Believes Backwards.

There Are Men Who Desire Power Simply For The Sake Of The Happiness It Will Bring; These Belong Chiefly To Political Parties.

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?

To Live Is To Suffer, To Survive Is To Find Some Meaning In The Suffering.

World Suffering

All Things That Are Truly Great Are At First Thought Impossible.

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

Laughter Means: Taking A Mischievous Delight In Someone Else's Uneasiness, But With A Good Conscience.

The Sensible Author Writes For No Other Posterity Than His Own--that Is, For His Age--so As To Be Able Even Then To Take Pleasurein Himself.

God Created Woman. And Boredom Did Indeed Cease From That Moment-but Many Other Things Ceased As Well!

Not To Him Who Is Offensive To Us Are We Most Unfair, But To Him Who Doth Not Concern Us At All.

Love Is More Afraid Of Change Than Destruction.

Those Who Are Failures From The Start, Downtrodden, Crushed -- It Is They, The Weakest, Who Must Undermine Life Among Men, Who Call Into Question And Poison Most Dangerously Our Trust In Life, In Man, And In Ourselves.

Against Boredom The Gods Themselves Fight In Vain.

He Who Has Attained Intellectual Emancipation To Any Extent Cannot, For A Long Time, Regard Himself Otherwise Than As A Wanderer On The Face Of The Earth And Not Even As A Traveller Towards A Final Goal, For There Is No Such Thing.

Pathetic Attitudes Are Not In Keeping With Greatness.

The Higher You Ascend, The Smaller You Appear To The Eye Of Envy. But Most Of All They Hate Those Who Fly.

It Is Within Your Power To See That All You Have Experienced, Trials, Errors, Faults, Deceptions, Passions, Your Love And Your Hope, Shall Be Merged Wholly In Your Aim.

Yet Tell Me, My Brothers: If A Goal For Humanity Is Still Lacking, Is There Not Still Lacking--humanity Itself?

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.

The Purpose Of Criminal Law Is To Punish The Enemies Of Those In Power.

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