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I Go In Solitude, So As Not To Drink Out Of Everybody's Cistern. When I Am Among The Many I Live As The Many Do, And I Do Not Think I Really Think; After A Time It Always Seems As If They Want To Banish Myself From Myself And Rob Me Of My Soul.

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I Go In Solitude,

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I Go In Solitude, So As Not To Drink Out Of Everybody's Cistern. When I Am Among The Many I Live As The Many Do, And I Do Not Think I Really Think; After A Time It Always Seems As If They Want To Banish Myself From Myself And Rob Me Of My Soul.

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Liberal Institutions Straightway Cease Being Liberal The Moment They Are Soundly Established: Once This Is Attained, No More Grievous And More Thorough Enemies Of Freedom Exist Than Liberal Institutions.

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Faith Actually Moves No Mountains, But Instead Raises Them Up Where There Were None Before.

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

It Is Not Doubt,is Certitude That Drives You Mad.

From Which Stars Have We Fallen To Meet Each Other Here?

We Are Franker Towards Others Than Towards Ourselves.

He Who Thinks A Great Deal Is Not Suited To Be A Party Man: He Thinks His Way Through The Party And Out The Other Side Too Soon.

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.

In Those Days It Was Possible For A Greek To Flee From An Over-abundant Reality As Though It Were But The Tricky Scheming Off The Imagination-and To Flee, Not Like Plato Into The Land Of Eternal Ideas, Into The Workshop Off The World-creator, Feasting One's Eyes On The Unblemished Unbreakable Archetypes, But Into The Rigor Mortis Off The Coldest Emptiest Concept Off All, The Concept Of Being.

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.

... 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.

You Say That I Should Be Your Teacher! See To It That I Am Your Pinion And Not Your Brake.

A Man Should Not Play The Coward To His Deeds. He Should Not Repudiate Them Once He Has Performed Them. Pangs Of Conscience Are Indecent.

The Will To Power Can Express Itself Only Against Resistances; It Seeks That Which Resists It--this Is The Native Tendency Of Theamoeba When It Extends Its Pseudopodia And Gropes Around.

That Roguish And Cheerful Vice, Politeness.

To One Who Is Accustomed To Thinking A Lot, Every New Thought That He Hears Or Reads About Immediately Appears As A Link In A Chain.

How Much Rationality And Higher Protection There Is In Such Self-deception, And How Much Falseness I Still Require In Order To Allow Myself Again And Again The Luxury Of My Sincerity.

There Are Preachers Of Death: And The Earth Is Full Of Those To Whom Desistance From Life Must Be Preached.

Whoever Is Related To Me In The Height Of His Aspirations Will Experience Veritable Ecstasies Of Learning; For I Come From Heights That No Bird Ever Reached In Its Flight, I Know Abysses Into Which No Foot Ever Strayed.

My Formula For Happiness: A Yes, A No, A Straight Line, A Goal.

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

You May Lie With Your Mouth, But With The Mouth You Make As You Do So You None The Less Tell The Truth.

Man Alone Suffers So Excruciatingly In The World That He Was Compelled To Invent Laughter.

Whoever Has Character Also Has His Typical Experience, Which Returns Over And Over Again.

The Greatest Progress That The Human Race Has Made Lies In Learning How To Make Correct Inferences.

To Be Ashamed Of One's Immorality: That Is A Step On The Staircase At Whose End One Is Also Ashamed Of One's Morality.

Those With Very Loud Voices In Their Throats Are Nearly Incapable Of Thinking Subtle Thoughts.

There Is Nothing More Necessary Than Truth, And In Comparison With It Everything Else Has Only Secondary Value. This Absolute Will To Truth: What Is It? Is It The Will To Not Allow Ourselves To Be Deceived? Is It The Will Not To Deceive? One Does Not Want To Be Deceived, Under The Supposition That It Is Injurious, Dangerous, Or Fatal To Be Deceived.

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

Morality Is: The Mediocre Are Worth More Than The Exceptions ... I Abhore Christianity With A Deadly Hatred.

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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.

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

The Reason Adultery Is Immoral Is That It Might Lead To Marriage.

The Thirst For Equality Can Express Itself Either As A Desire To Draw Everyone Down To One's Level, Or To Raise Oneself And Everyone Else Up.

Christianity Is Platonism For The People.

And We Should Consider Every Day Lost On Which We Have Not Danced At Least Once. And We Should Call Every Truth False Which Was Not Accompanied By At Least One Laugh.

Annoyance Is A Physical Malady That Is In No Way Cured Just Because The Annoying Situation That Causes It Is Eliminated.

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.

Unconsciously We Seek The Principles And Opinions Which Are Suited To Our Temperament, So That At Last It Seems As If These Principles And Opinions Had Formed Our Character And Given It Support And Stability.

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