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I Too Have Been In The Underworld, As Was Odysseus, And I Will Often Be There Again; Not Only Sheep Have I Sacrificed So As To Beable To Speak With A Few Dead Souls, But Neither Have I Spared My Own Blood As Well.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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I Too Have Been In The Underworld, As Was Odysseus, And I Will Often Be There Again; Not Only Sheep Have I Sacrificed So As To Beable To Speak With A Few Dead Souls, But Neither Have I Spared My Own Blood As Well.

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Visions Of The Future

The Patient. The Pine Tree Seems To Listen, The Fir Tree To Wait: And Both Without Impatience: - They Give No Thought To The Little People Beneath Them Devoured By Their Impatience And Their Curiosity.

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Man Is A Rope, Tied Between Beast And Overman — A Rope Over An Abyss.

The Machine Is Impersonal, It Takes The Pride Away From A Piece Of Work, The Individual Merits And Defects That Go Along With Allwork That Is Not Done By A Machine--which Is To Say, Its Little Bit Of Humanity.

One Should Not Wish To Enjoy Where One Does Not Give Joy.

I Am A Law Only For My Kind, I Am No Law For All.

What Are Man's Truths Ultimately? Merely His Irrefutable Errors.

Women Want To Serve, And This Is Where Their Happiness Lies: But The Free Spirit Does Not Want To Be Served, And This Is Where Hishappiness Lies.

I Love Him Who Laboureth And Inventeth, That He May Build The House For The Superman, And Prepare For Him Earth, Animal, And Plant: For Thus Seeketh He His Own Down-going.

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

Your Educators Can Only Be Your Liberators.

Good Writers Have Two Things In Common: They Prefer To Be Understood Rather Than Admired; And They Do Not Write For Knowing And Over-acute Readers.

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

Convictions Are Prisons.

The Bite Of Conscience Is Indecent.

I Have Learned To Walk: Since Then I Have Run. I Have Learned To Fly: Since Then I Do Not Have To Be Pushed In Order To Move. Now I Am Nimble, Now I Fly, Now I See Myself Under Myself, Now A God Dances Within Me.

What Good Is All This Free-thinking, Modernity, And Turncoat Flexibility If At Some Gut Level You Are Still A Christian, A Catholic, And Even A Priest!

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'.

Truly, It Is A Blessing And Not A Blasphemy When I Teach That "above All Things There Stands The Heaven Of Chance, The Heaven Of Innocence, The Heaven Of Accident, The Heaven Of Wantonness".

That Which Does Not Destroy, Strengthens.

Love Brings To Light The Lofty And Hidden Characteristics Of The Lover--what Is Rare And Exceptional In Him: To That Extent It Caneasily Be Deceptive With Respect To What Is Normal In Him.

Life Is Fountain Of Joy; But Where The Rabble Also Gather To Drink, All Wells Are Poisoned.

At Times One Remains Faithful To A Cause Only Because Its Opponents Do Not Cease To Be Insipid.

Preparatory Human Beings. - I Welcome All Signs That A More Virile, Warlike Age Is About To Begin, Which Will Restore Honour To Courage Above All! For This Age Shall Prepare The Way For One Yet Higher, And It Shall Gather The Strength That This Higher Age Will Require Some Day - The Age That Will Carry Heroism Into The Search For Knowledge And That Will Wage Wars For The Sake Of Ideas And Their Consequences.

Everyone Who Enjoys Supposes That The Tree Was Concerned With The Fruit, But It Was Really Concerned With The Seed. -in This Lies The Difference Between All Those Who Create And Those Who Enjoy.

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

A Labyrinthine Man Never Seeks The Truth, But Only His Ariadne.

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

People Who Live In An Age Of Corruption Are Witty And Slanderous; They Know That There Are Other Kinds Of Murder Than By Dagger Or Assault; They Also Know That Whatever Is Well Said Is Believed.

The Errors Of Great Men Are Venerable Because They Are More Fruitful Than The Truths Of Little Men.

Science ... Has No Consideration For Ultimate Purposes, Any More Than Nature Has, But Just As The Latter Occasionally Achieves Things Of The Greatest Suitableness Without Intending To Do So, So Also True Science, As The Imitator Of Nature In Ideas, Will Occasionally And In Many Ways Further The Usefulness And Welfare Of Man,-but Also Without Intending To Do So.

Not Doubt, Certainty Is What Drives One Insane.

As Long As You Still Experience The Stars As Something "above You", You Lack The Eye Of Knowledge.

Christianity Is Called The Religion Of Pity.

Morality Is The Herd-instinct In The Individual.

Individual Morality

Energy Wasted On Negative Ends.

Knowledge Kills Action; Action Requires The Veils Of Illusion.

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.

Nothing Is Beautiful, Only Man: On This Piece Of Naivete Rests All Aesthetics, It Is The First Truth Of Aesthetics. Let Us Immediately Add Its Second: Nothing Is Ugly But Degenerate Man - The Domain Of Aesthetic Judgment Is Therewith Defined.

In Large States Public Education Will Always Be Mediocre, For The Same Reason That In Large Kitchens The Cooking Is Usually Bad.

What? A Great Man? I Only Ever See The Ape Of His Own Ideal.

Improvements Are Invented Only By Those Who Can Feel That Something Is Not Good.

God Is Dead; But Given The Way Of Men, There May Still Be Caves For Thousands Of Years In Which His Shadow Will Be Shown. And We - We Still Have To Vanquish His Shadow, Too.

He Who Despises Himself Esteems Himself As A Self-despiser.

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Liberalism Is The Transformation Of Mankind Into Cattle.

The Arrogance That Accompanies Merit Offends Us Even More Than The Arrogance Of People Who Are Lacking In Merit: Since Merit Itself Offends Us.

If You Are Considering Marriage, Ask Yourself One Question: Will I Still Enjoy Talking With Her When I'm Old?

I Presume That You Are Compassionate: To Be Without Pity Means To Be Sick In Body And Spirit. But One Should Have Spirit In Abundance, So As To Be Permitted To Be Compassionate! For Your Pity Is Detrimental To You And To Everyone.

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

What Does A Philosopher Demand Of Himself, First And Last? To Overcome His Time In Himself, To Become "timeless.

What Do You Regard As Most Humane? To Spare Someone Shame.

At The Beginning Of A Marriage Ask Yourself Whether This Woman Will Be Interesting To Talk To From Now Until Old Age. Everything Else In Marriage Is Transitory: Most Of The Time Is Spent In Conversation.

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.

How Lovely It Is That There Are Words And Sounds. Are Not Words And Sounds Rainbows And Illusive Bridges Between Things Which Are Eternally Apart?

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