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More And More It Seems To Me That The Philosopher, Being Of Necessity A Man Of Tomorrow And The Day After Tomorrow, Has Always Found Himself, And Had To Find Himself, In Contradiction To His Today: His Enemy Was Ever The Ideal Of Today. So Far All These Extraordinary Furtherers Of Men Whom One Calls Philosophers, Though They Themselves Have Rarely Felt Like Friends Of Wisdom But Rather Like Disagreeable Fools And Dangerous Question Marks, Have Found Their Task, Their Hard, Unwanted, Inescapable Task, But Eventually Also The Greatness Of Their Task, In Being The Bad Conscience Of Their Time.

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More And More It Seems To Me That The Philosopher, Being Of Necessity A Man Of Tomorrow And The Day After Tomorrow, Has Always Found Himself, And Had To Find Himself, In Contradiction To His Today: His Enemy Was Ever The Ideal Of Today. So Far All These Extraordinary Furtherers Of Men Whom One Calls Philosophers, Though They Themselves Have Rarely Felt Like Friends Of Wisdom But Rather Like Disagreeable Fools And Dangerous Question Marks, Have Found Their Task, Their Hard, Unwanted, Inescapable Task, But Eventually Also The Greatness Of Their Task, In Being The Bad Conscience Of Their Time.

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Perhaps I Know Best Why It Is Man Alone Who Laughs; He Alone Suffers So Deeply That He Had To Invent Laughter.

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Those That Achieve Anything That Looks Beyond The Vision And Thinking Of Their Peers Provoke Jealousy And Hatred Disguised As The Ordinary.

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At Bottom Every Man Knows Well Enough That He Is A Unique Being, Only Once On This Earth; And By No Extraordinary Chance Will Such A Marvelously Picturesque Piece Of Diversity In Unity As He Is, Ever Be Put Together A Second Time.

If Thinking Is Your Fate, Revere This Fate With Divine Honour And Sacrifice To It The Best, The Most Beloved

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Every One Being Allowed To Learn To Read, Ruineth In The Long Run Not Only Writing But Also Thinking.

All Idealism Is Falsehood In The Face Of Necessity.

The Strong Individual Loves The Earth So Much He Lusts For Recurrence. He Can Smile In The Face Of The Most Terrible Thought: Meaningless, Aimless Existence Recurring Eternally. The Second Characteristic Of Such A Man Is That He Has The Strength To Recognize - And To Live With The Recognition - That The World Is Valueless In Itself And That All Values Are Human Ones. He Creates Himself By Fashioning His Own Values; He Has The Pride To Live By The Values He Wills.

Do Ask Yourself Why You, The Individual, Exist, And If You Can Get No Other Answer Try For Once To Justify The Meaning Of Your Existence As It Were A Posteriori By Setting Before Yourself An Aim, A Goal, A 'to This End', An Exalted And Noble 'to This End'.

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Madness Is The Exception In Individuals But The Rule In Groups.

The Truthful Man Ends Up Realizing That He Always Lies.

The Relatives Of A Suicide Hold It Against Him That Out Of Consideration For Their Reputation He Did Not Remain Alive.

What Convinces Is Not Necessarily True-it Is Merely Convincing: A Note For Asses.

Man Must Become Better And More Evil.

The Essence Of All Beautiful Art, All Great Art, Is Gratitude.

All Truly Great Thoughts Are Conceived By Walking.

What Is The Greatest Thing Ye Can Experience? It Is The Hour Of Great Contempt. The Hour In Which Even Your Happiness Becometh Loathsome Unto You, And So Also Your Reason And Virtue.

You Want To Make Him Interested In You? Then Pretend To Be Embarrassed In His Presence-

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There Is No More Dangerous Error Than That Of Mistaking The Consequence For The Cause.

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Willing Sets You Free: That Is The True Doctrine Of Will And Freedom--thus Zarathustra Instructs You.

If We Lacked Curiosity, We Should Do Less For The Good Of Our Neighbor. But, Under The Name Of Duty Or Pity, Curiosity Steals Into The Home Of The Unhappy And The Needy. Perhaps Even In The Famous Mother-love There Is A Good Deal Of Curiosity.

We Cannot Live Without Valuing: But We Can Live Without Valuing What You Value.

Whoever Possesses The Will To Suffering Within Himself Has A Different Attitude Towards Cruelty: He Does Not Regard It As Inherently Harmful And Bad.

The State Is The Coldest Of All Cold Monsters.

The Living Is A Species Of The Dead; And Not A Very Attractive One.

The Doctrine Of Equality! There Exists No More Poisonous Poison: For It Seems To Be Preached By Justice Itself, While It Is The End Of Justice.

The Form Of A Work Of Art, Which Gives Speech To Their Thoughts And Is, Therefore, Their Mode Of Talking, Is Always Somewhat Uncertain, Like All Kinds Of Speech.

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I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite!

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...throw Roses Into The Abyss And Say: 'here Is My Thanks To The Monster Who Didn't Succeed In Swallowing Me Alive.

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Every High Degree Of Power Always Involves A Corresponding Degree Of Freedom From Good And Evil.

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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).

Every Living Body Continuously Eliminates Feces, It Rejects What Is Not Serviceable To The Assimilating Organism: What Man Despises, What Arouses His Disgust, What He Calls Evil, Are Excrements.

All Contempt For The Sexual Life, All Denigration Under The Concept 'impure" Is The Essential Crime Against Life- Against The Holy Spirit Of Life".

I Am Not Bigoted Enough For A System-and Not Even For My System.

He Who Laughs Best Today, Will Also Laughs Last.

They Devour Each Other And Cannot Even Digest Themselves.

If There Is To Be Art, If There Is To Be Any Aesthetic Doing And Seeing, One Physiological Condition Is Indispensable: Frenzy.

I'm Not Upset That You Lied To Me, I'm Upset That From Now On I Can't Believe You.

Christianity Has The Rancor Of The Sick At Its Very Core-the Instinct Against The Healthy, Against Health. Everything That Is Well-constructed, Proud, Gallant And, Above All, Beautiful Gives Offense To Its Ears And Eyes.

In Revenge And In Love, Woman Is More Barbarous Than Man.

For The Woman, The Man Is A Means: The End Is Always The Child.

The Most Welcome Joke To Me Is The One That Takes The Place Of A Heavy, Not Altogether Innocuous Thought, At Once A Cautionary Hint Of The Finger And A Flash Of The Eye.

But The Worst Enemy You Can Meet Will Always Be Yourself; You Lie In Wait For Yourself In Caverns And Forests. Lonely One, You Are Going The Way To Yourself! And Your Way Goes Past Yourself, And Past Your Seven Devils! You Will Be A Heretic To Yourself And Witch And Soothsayer And Fool And Doubter And Unholy One And Villain. You Must Be Ready To Burn Yourself In Your Own Flame: How Could You Become New, If You Had Not First Become Ashes?

Willing Emancipateth: That Is The True Doctrine Of Will And Emancipation - So Teacheth You Zarathustra. No Longer Willing, And No Longer Valuing, And No Longer Creating! Ah, That That Great Debility May Ever Be Far From Me! And Also In Discerning Do I Feel Only My Will's Procreating And Evolving Delight.

You Lack The Courage To Be Consumed In Flames And To Become Ashes: So You Will Never Become New, And Never Young Again!

One Is Necessary, One Is A Piece Of Fate, One Belongs To The Whole, One Is The Whole - There Exists Nothing Which Could Judge, Measure, Compare, Condemn Our Being, For That Would Be To Judge, Measure, Compare, Condemn The Whole...but Nothing Exists Apart From The Whole!

My Solitude Doesn’t Depend On The Presence Or Absence Of People; On The Contrary, I Hate Who Steals My Solitude Without, In Exchange, Offering Me True Company.

Underneath The Reality In Which We Live And Have Our Being, Another Altogether Different Reality Lies Concealed.

Thus The Will To Power Strives Towards Oppositions, Towards Displeasure. There Is A Will To Suffering At The Foundation Of All Organic Life (contrary To "happiness" As "goal").

I Wish To Be At Any Time Hereafter Only A Yea-sayer!

Thou Seekest Disciples? Then Thou Seekest Ciphers.

One Must Be A Sea, To Receive A Polluted Stream Without Becoming Impure.

Pollution Control

I Love Him Who Wants To Create Over And Beyond Himself And Thus Perishes.

Just As A Waterfall Grows Slower And More Lightly Suspended As It Plunges Down, So The Great Man Of Action Tends To Act With Greater Calmness Than His Tempestuous Desires Prior To The Deed Would Lead One To Expect.

Everything Good Is Instinct--and, As A Result, Easy, Necessary, Free.

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

It Was Christianity Which First Painted The Devil On The Worlds Walls; It Was Christianity Which First Brought Sin Into The World. Belief In The Cure Which It Offered Has Now Been Shaken To It's Deepest Roots; But Belief In The Sickness Which It Taught And Propagated Continues To Exists.

The Best Way To Give Assistance To Those Who Are Deeply Embarrassed And To Calm Them Down Is To Praise Them Decisively.

Faith Is The Path Of Least Resistance.

Path Of Least Resistance

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

Not To Be Cowardly When It Comes To Our Own Actions! Not To Leave Them In The Lurch!--the Sting Of Conscience Is Indecent.

I Love Him Who Is Ashamed When The Dice Fall In His Favour, And Who Then Asketh: "am I A Dishonest Player?" - For He Is Willing To Succumb.

To Go On Vegetating In Cowardly Dependence On Physicians And Machinations, After The Meaning Of Life, The Right To Life, Has Been Lost, That Ought To Prompt A Profound Contempt In Society.

Meaning Of Life

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.

'he Who Seeks May Easily Get Lost Himself. It Is A Crime To Go Apart And Be Alone.' Thus Speaks The Herd.

The Man Who Does Not Wish To Belong To The Mass Needs Only To Cease Taking Himself Easily; Let Him Follow His Conscience, Which Calls To Him: "be Your Self! All You Are Now Doing, Thinking, Desiring, Is Not You Yourself.

Who Has Not For The Sake Of His Reputation Sacrificed Himself?

As An Artist One Has No Home In Europe Except In Paris.

Among Austere Men Intimacy Involves Shame--and Is Something Precious.

A Nation That Still Believes In Itself Holds Fast To Its Own God.

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

I Am One Thing, My Writings Are Another.

It Was The Sick And Decaying Who Despised The Body And Earth And Invented The Heavenly Realm And The Redemptive Drops Of Blood: But They Took Even These Sweet And Gloomy Poisons From Body And Earth. They Wanted To Escape Their Own Misery, And The Stars Were Too Far For Them.

Without Cruelty There Is No Festival: Thus The Longest And Most Ancient Part Of Human History Teaches And In Punishment There Is So Much That Is Festive!

Whoever Does Not Have A Good Father Should Procure One.

Some Men Have Sighed Over The Abduction Of Their Wives, But Many More Have Sighed Because No One Wanted To Abduct Theirs.

Marriage: That I Call The Will Of Two To Create The One Who Is More Than Those Who Created It.

The Problem Of Culture Is Seldom Grasped Correctly. The Goal Of A Culture Is Not The Greatest Possible Happiness Of A People, Noris It The Unhindered Development Of All Their Talents; Instead, Culture Shows Itself In The Correct Proportion Of These Developments. Its Aim Points Beyond Earthly Happiness: The Production Of Great Works Is The Aim Of Culture.

Only Sick Music Makes Money Today.

There Is A Stupid Humility That Is Quite Common And When A Person Is Afflicted With It, He Is Once And For All Disqualified For Being A Disciple Of Knowledge.

"this - Is Now My Way - Where Is Yours"? Thus Did I Answer Those Who Asked Me "the Way". For The Way - It Does Not Exist!

What Does Your Conscience Say? — 'you Should Become The Person You Are'.

[heraclitus Had] The Highest Form Of Pride [stemming] From A Certainty Of Belief In The Truth As Grasped By Himself Alone. He Brings This Form, By Its Excessive Development, Into A Sublime Pathos By Involuntary Identification Of Himself With His Truth.

One Should Die Proudly When It Is No Longer Possible To Live Proudly.

Profundity Of Thought Belongs To Youth, Clarity Of Thought To Old Age.

One Has To Know The Size Of One's Stomach.

Ah, Only He Who Knows Where He Sails, Knows What Wind Is Good, And A Fair Wind For Him.

I Teach The No To All That Makes Weak--that Exhausts. I Teach The Yes To All That Strengthens, That Stores Up Strength, That Pride.

There Are Various Eyes. Even The Sphinx Has Eyes: And As A Result There Are Various Truths, And As A Result There Is No Truth.

[heraclitus Speaks As If] In Entrancement ... But [also] Truthfully.

I Love Him Who Justifieth The Future Ones, And Redeemeth The Past Ones: For He Is Willing To Succumb Through The Present Ones.

Style Ought To Prove That One Believes In An Idea; Not Only That One Thinks It But Also Feels It.

It Is I, The Ungodly Zarathustra, Who Says:who Is More Ungodly Than I, That I May Rejoice In His Teaching?

Weariness That Wants To Reach The Ultimate With One Leap, With One Fatal Leap, A Poor Ignorant Weariness That Does Not Want To Want Any More: This Created All Gods And Afterworlds.

When We Are Tired, We Are Attacked By Ideas We Conquered Long Ago.

If Virtue Goes To Sleep, It Will Be More Vigorous When It Awakes.

The Object Of Convalescence Ought To Be To Turn Our Attention To Life: At Other Times, Simply To Our Tasks!

In Our Interactions With People, A Benevolent Hypocrisy Is Frequently Required--acting As Though We Do Not See Through The Motivesof Their Actions.

The 'kingdom Of Heaven' Is A Condition Of The Heart - Not Something That Comes 'upon The Earth' Or 'after Death.'

Alas, Where Is There Still A Sea In Which One Could Drown: Thus Our Lament Resounds – Across Shallow Swamps.

I Would Believe Only In A God That Knows How To Dance.

Live Dangerously. Build Your Cities On The Slopes Of Vesuvius.

The Consequences Of Our Actions Take Hold Of Us, Quite Indifferent To Our Claim That Meanwhile We Have 'improved.

Everyone Thinks That The Principal Thing To The Tree Is The Fruit, But In Point Of Fact The Principal Thing To It Is The Seed.

The Apprentice And The Master Love The Master In Different Ways.

What Destroys A Man More Quickly Than To Work, Think And Feel Without Inner Necessity, Without Any Deep Personal Desire, Without Pleasure - As A Mere Automaton Of Duty?

The Less Men Are Fettered By Tradition, The Greater Becomes The Inward Activity Of Their Motives, And Greater Again In Proportion To Their Outer Restlessness.

Some People Appear To Be More Meager In Talent Than They Are, Just Because The Tasks They Set Themselves Are Always Too Great.

He Who Lives As Children Live - Who Does Not Struggle For His Bread And Does Not Believe That His Actions Possess Any Ultimate Significance - Remains Childlike.

It Is Nobler To Declare Oneself Wrong Than To Insist On Being Right --especially When One Is Right.

The Finest And Healthiest Thing About Science Is, As In The Mountains, The Brisk Air Blowing Around In It.--the Spiritually Delicate (such As Artists) Shun And Slander Science Owing To This Air.

Fathers And Sons Are Much More Considerate Of One Another Than Mothers And Daughters.

Sometimes It Is Harder To Accede To A Thing Than It Is To See Its Truth.

Most People Are Too Stupid To Act In Their Own Interest

So Long As The Priest, That Professional Negator, Slanderer And Poisoner Of Life, Is Regarded As A Superior Type Of Human Being, There Cannot Be Any Answer To The Question: What Is Truth?

If A Man Wishes To Rid Himself Of A Feeling Of Unbearable Oppression, He May Have To Take Hashish.

In Loneliness, The Lonely One Eats Himself; In A Crowd, The Many Eat Him. Now Choose.

We Love Life, Not Because We Are Used To Living But Because We Are Used To Loving.

He Who Obeys, Does Not Listen To Himself!

We Are So Fond Of Being Out Among Nature, Because It Has No Opinions About Us.

I Do Not Mean To Moralise But To Those Who Do, I Would Give This Advice : If You Mean Ultimately To Deprive The Best Things And States Of All All Honour And Worth Then Continue To Talk About Them As You Have Been Doing!

The Tree That Would Grow To Heaven Must Send Its Roots To Hell.

There Are No Beautiful Surfaces Without A Terrible Depth.

The States In Which We Infuse A Transfiguration And A Fullness Into Things And Poetize About Them Until They Reflect Back Our Fullness And Joy In Life... Three Elements Principally: Sexuality, Intoxication And Cruelty All Belonging To The Oldest Festal Joys.

With Sturdy Shoulders, Space Stands Opposing All Its Weight To Nothingness. Where Space Is, There Is Being.

I Teach You The Overman. Man Is Something Which Shall Be Surpassed.

Every Virtue Has Its Privilege: For Example, That Of Contributing Its Own Little Bundle Of Wood To The Funeral Pyre Of One Condemned.

A Thought Comes When It Will, Not When I Will.

It Is The Powerful Who Know How To Honour, It Is Their Art, Their Domain For Invention.

I Am Alone Again And I Want To Be So; Alone With The Pure Sky And Open Sea.

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

We Have Art So That We Shall Not Die Of Reality.

A Few Hours' Mountain Climbing Make Of A Rogue And A Saint Two Fairly Equal Creatures. Tiredness Is The Shortest Path To Equality And Fraternity - And Sleep Finally Adds To Them Liberty.

He Who Climbeth On The Highest Mountains, Laugheth At All Tragic Plays And Tragic Realities.

Why Couldn't The World That Concerns Us- Be A Fiction? And If Somebody Asked, 'but To Be A Fiction There Surely Belongs An Author?'- Couldn't One Answer Simply: 'why? Doesn't This "belongs" Perhaps Belong To The Fiction, Too?'

Do Not Paint A Picture Either Of God Or The Devil On Your Walls: This Will Ruin Both Your Walls And The Atmosphere.

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