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Morality Makes Stupid.- Custom Represents The Experiences Of Men Of Earlier Times As To What They Supposed Useful And Harmful - But The Sense For Custom (morality) Applies, Not To These Experiences As Such, But To The Age, The Sanctity, The Indiscussability Of The Custom. And So This Feeling Is A Hindrance To The Acquisition Of New Experiences And The Correction Of Customs: That Is To Say, Morality Is A Hindrance To The Development Of New And Better Customs: It Makes Stupid.

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Morality Makes Stupid.- Custom

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality Makes Stupid.- Custom Represents The Experiences Of Men Of Earlier Times As To What They Supposed Useful And Harmful - But The Sense For Custom (morality) Applies, Not To These Experiences As Such, But To The Age, The Sanctity, The Indiscussability Of The Custom. And So This Feeling Is A Hindrance To The Acquisition Of New Experiences And The Correction Of Customs: That Is To Say, Morality Is A Hindrance To The Development Of New And Better Customs: It Makes Stupid.

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It Is However A Disgrace To Pray! Not For All, But For You, And Me, And Whoever Has His A Conscience.

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An Important Species Of Pleasure, And Therewith The Source Of Morality, Arises Out Of Habit.

For The Longest Time, Marriage Has Had A Guilty Conscience About Itself. Should We Believe It?--yes, We Should Believe It.

Guilty Conscience

He Who Obeys, Does Not Listen To Himself!

A Pair Of Powerful Spectacles Has Sometimes Sufficed To Cure A Person In Love.

However Closely People Are Attached To One Another, Their Mutual Horizon Nonetheless Includes All Four Compass Directions, And Nowand Again They Notice It.

It Is My Ambition To Say In Ten Sentences What Others Say In A Whole Book.

The Complete Irresponsibility Of Man For His Actions And His Nature Is The Bitterest Drop Which He Who Understands Must Swallow.

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Not Doubt, Certainty Is What Drives One Insane.

I Could Dispense With Nothing When I Created The Superman. His Seed Still Carries All Your Evil And Falsehood, Your Lies And Yourignorance.

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.

Christianity Is Platonism For The People.

Everything Matters. Nothing's Important.

Science Is About Finding Ever Better Approximations Rather Than Pretending You Have Already Found Ultimate Truth. A Casual Stroll Through The Lunatic Asylum Shows That Faith Does Not Prove Anything.

Lunatic Asylums

He Who Attains His Ideal, Precisely Thereby Surpasses It.

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

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Seducing One's Neighbor To A Good Opinion And Then Afterwards Believing Devoutly In This Neighbor's Opinion--who Can Match Women In This Clever Ploy?

Death. The Certain Prospect Of Death Could Sweeten Every Life With A Precious And Fragrant Drop Of Levity- And Now You Strange Apothecary Souls Have Turned It Into An Ill-tasting Drop Of Poison That Makes The Whole Of Life Repulsive.

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Really Unreflective People Are Now Inwardly Without Christianity, And The More Moderate And Reflective People Of The Intellectual Middle Class Now Possess Only An Adapted, That Is To Say Marvelously Simplified Christianity. A God Who In His Love Arranges Everything In A Manner That In The End Will Be Best For Us; A God Who Gives To Us And Takes From Us Our Virtue And Our Happiness, So That As A Whole All Is Meet And Fit And There Is No Reason For Us To Take Life Sadly, Let Alone Exclaim Against It; In Short, Resignation And Modest Demands Elevated To Godhead

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Those You Cannot Teach To Fly, Teach To Fall Faster.

Convictions Are More Dangerous Foes Of Truth Than Lies.

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It Is Impossible To Suffer Without Making Someone Pay For It; Every Complaint Already Contains Revenge.

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Do Whatever You Will, But First Be Such As Are Able To Will.

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.

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There Is More Wisdom In Your Body Than In Your Best Wisdom. And Who Then Knows Why Your Body Needs Precisely Your Best Wisdom?

The Earth Has A Skin And That Skin Has Diseases; One Of Its Diseases Is Called Man.

Watch Them Clamber, These Swift Monkeys! They Clamber Over One Another And Thus Drag One Another Into The Mud And The Depth. They All Want To Get To The Throne: That Is Their Madness — As If Happiness Sat On The Throne. Often, Mud Sits On The Throne — And Often The Throne Also On Mud. Mad They All Appear To Me, Clambering Monkeys And Overardent. Foul Smells Their Idol, The Cold Monster: Foul, They Smell To Me Altogether, These Idolators.

In Every Real Man A Child Is Hidden That Wants To Play.

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Words Of Wisdom

What Do We Have In Common With The Rosebud, Which Trembles Because A Drop Of Dew Lies On Its Body?

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

The World Was Conquered Through The Understanding Of Dogs; The World Exists Through The Understanding Of Dogs.

Pharisaism Is Not A Degeneration In A Good Man: A Large Portion Of It Is Rather The Condition Of All Being-good.

Our Body Is Simply A Social Structure Made Of Many Souls.

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

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).

Emerson Is A Person Who Lives Instinctively On Ambrosia - And Leaves Everything Indigestible On His Plate.

Thinking Evil Is Making Evil.

One Does Not Hate So Long As One Continues To Rate Low, But Only When One Has Come To Rate Equal Or Higher.

The World Is Beautiful, But Has A Disease Called Man.

Without Meaning, Without Substance, Without Aim: A Mere 'public Opinion'.

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

Mastery Has Been Achieved When One Neither Makes A Mistake Nor Hesitates In The Performance.

Did You Ever Say Yes To A Pleasure? Oh My Friends, Then You Also Said Yes To All Pain. All Things Are Linked, Entwined, In Love With One Another.

O, What Nowadays Does Science Not Conceal! How Much, At Least, It Is Meant To Conceal!

Science Offends The Modesty Of All Real Women. It Makes Them Feel As Though It Were An Attempt To Peek Under Their Skin--or, Worseyet, Under Their Dress And Ornamentation!

With One More Talent One Frequently Stands With Greater Instability Than With One Less, As A Table Stands Better On Three Legs Than On Four.

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