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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.

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Now Know I Well

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.

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Men Should Learn To Live With The Same Seriousness With Which Children Play.

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Here We Also See: What This Divinity Lacks Is Not Only A Sense Of Shame-and There Are Also Other Reasons For Conjecturing That In Several Respects All Of The Gods Could Learn From Us Humans. We Humans Are-more Humane.

O My Brothers, Am I Then Cruel? But I Say: That Which Is Falling Should Also Be Pushed!

That Is An Artist As I Would Have An Artist Be, Modest In His Needs: He Really Wants Only Two Things, His Bread And His Art--panemet Circen.

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Instruments And Playthings Are Sense And Spirit: Behind Them There Is Still The Self. The Self Seeketh With The Eyes Of The Senses, It Hearkeneth Also With The Ears Of The Spirit.

Beauty Is For The Artist Something Outside All Orders Of Rank, Because In Beauty Opposites Are Tamed; The Highest Sign Of Power, Namely Power Over Opposites; Moreover, Without Tension: - That Violence Is No Longer Needed: That Everything Follows, Obeys, So Easily And So Pleasantly - That Is What Delights The Artist's Will To Power.

Even The Most Beautiful Scenery Is No Longer Assured Of Our Love After We Have Lived In It For Three Months, And Some Distant Coast Attracts Our Avarice: Possessions Are Generally Diminished By Possession.

I Was In Darkness, But I Took Three Steps And Found Myself In Paradise. The First Step Was A Good Thought, The Second, A Good Word; And The Third, A Good Deed.

From The State The Exceptional Individual Cannot Expect Much. He Is Seldom Benefited By Being Taken Into Its Service; The Only Certain Advantage It Can Give Him Is Complete Independence. Only Real Culture Will Prevent Him Being Too Early Tired Out Or Used Up, And Will Spare Him The Exhausting Struggle Against Culture-philistinism.

Not Joy Is The Mother Of Dissipation, But Joylessness.

For A Significant Man Woman, The One Thought He Values Greatly, To The Laughter And Scorn Of Insignificant Men, Is A Key To Hidden Treasure Chambers; For Those Others, It Is Nothing But A Piece Of Old Iron.

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Man Is No Longer An Artist, He Has Become A Work Of Art.

Are You Visiting Women? Do Not Forget Your Whip

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He Who Cannot Obey Himself Will Be Commanded. That Is The Nature Of Living Creatures.

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This World Is The Will To Power And Nothing Besides!

Woman Understands Children Better Than Man Does, But Man Is More Childlike Than Woman.

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Every Talent Must Unfold Itself In Fighting.

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Anyone Who Has Looked Deeply Into The World May Guess How Much Wisdom Lies In The Superficiality Of Men. The Instinct That Preserves Them Teaches Them To Be Flighty Light, And False.

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One Who Has A Why Can Endure Anyhow.

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Path Of Least Resistance

The Only Excuse For God Is That He Doesn't Exist.

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

Modern Marriage Has Lost Its Meaning--consequently It Is Being Abolished.

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The Same Passions In Man And Woman Nonetheless Differ In Tempo; Hence Man And Woman Do Not Cease Misunderstanding One Another.

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

I Know My Fate. One Day My Name Will Be Tied To The Memory Of Something Monstrous - A Crisis Without Equal On Earth.... I Am No Man, I Am Dynamite!

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Beyond Good And Evil

Beware In The Presence Of Cats: They Never Give, They Do Not Even Retaliate--they Only Reply, And Purr In Doing So.

But Say, My Brothers, What Can The Child Do That Even The Lion Could Not Do? Why Must The Preying Lion Still Become A Child? The Child Is Innocence And Forgetting, A New Beginning, A Sacred 'yes.' For The Game Of Creation, My Brothers, A Sacred 'yes' Is Needed: The Spirit Now Wills His Own Will, And He Who Had Been Lost To The World Now Conquers His Own World.

Moderation Sees Itself As Beautiful; It Is Unaware That In The Eye Of The Immoderate It Appears Black And Sober And Consequently Ugly-looking.

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The Earth Is Like The Breasts Of A Woman: Useful As Well As Pleasing.

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

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

Books For All The World Are Always Foul-smelling Books: The Smell Of Small People Clings To Them.

After Coming Into Contact With A Religious Man I Always Feel I Must Wash My Hands.

Every Day I Count Wasted In Which There Has Been No Dancing.

In Every Age The Wisest Have Passed The Identical Judgment On Life: It Is Worthless.

Human Condition

When We Dream About Those Who Are Long Since Forgotten Or Dead, It Is A Sign That We Have Undergone A Radical Transformation And That The Ground On Which We Live Has Been Completely Dug Up: Then The Dead Rise Up, And Our Antiquity Becomes Modernity.

Pity Is The Most Agreeable Feeling Among Those Who Have Little Pride And No Prospects Of Great Conquests.

The Germans Are Like Women, You Can Scarcely Ever Fathom Their Depths - They Haven't Any.

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

No One Talks More Passionately About His Rights Than He Who In The Depths Of His Soul Doubts Whether He Has Any

Bad Cooks - And The Utter Lack Of Reason In The Kitchen - Have Delayed Human Development Longest And Impaired It Most.

How Good Music And Bad Reasons Sound When One Marches Against An Enemy.

Immortal Is The Moment When I Engendered The Recurrence. For The Sake Of This Moment I Bear The Recurrence.

The Concepts "beyond" And "real World" Were Invented In Order To Depreciate The Only World That Exists-in Order That No Goal, No Aim Or Task Might Be Left For Our Earthly Reality.

The Rising And Falling Of The Scales Of Pride And Humility Sustain The Brooding Mind As Well As The Alternations Of Desire And Peace Of The Soul.

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!

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?

Dead Are All Gods: Now We Want The Overman To Live.

We Must Beware Of One Who Is In A Passion Against Us As Of One Who Has Once Sought Our Life; For The Fact That We Still Live Is Due To The Absence Of Power To Kill, - If Looks Could Kill, We Should Have Been Dead Long Ago.

Foolish Is My Happiness, And Foolish Things Will It Speak: It Is Still Too Young—so Have Patience With It!

Supposing Truth Is A Woman -- What Then?

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

People Who Feel Insecure In Social Situations Never Miss A Chance To Exhibit Their Dominance Over Close, Submissive Friends, Whomthey Put Down Publicly, In Front Of Everyone--by Teasing, For Example.

Our Drives Are Reducible To The Will To Power. The Will To Power Is The Ultimate Fact At Which We Arrive.

Christians Call It Faith ... I Call It The Herd.

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

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