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The Earth Has Become Small, And On It Hops The Last Man, Who Makes Everything Small. His Race Can No More Be Exterminated Than The Flea Can Be. The Last Man Lives The Longest.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Earth Has Become Small, And On It Hops The Last Man, Who Makes Everything Small. His Race Can No More Be Exterminated Than The Flea Can Be. The Last Man Lives The Longest.

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When A Man Reaches His Maturity In Understanding And In Years, The Feeling Comes Over Him That His Father Was Wrong To Beget Him.

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Verily, I Do Not Want To Be Like The Ropemakers: They Drag Out Their Threads And Always Walk Backwards.

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Behind A Remarkable Scholar We Not Infrequently Find An Average Human Being, And Behind An Average Artist We Often Find A Very Remarkable Human Being.

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Democracies Have

Pathetic Attitudes Are Not In Keeping With Greatness.

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Worldly Wisdom Do Not Stay In The Field! Nor Climb Out Of Sight. The Best View Of The World Is From A Medium Height.

Life Is That Which Must Overcome Itself Again And Again

Again And Again

How Poisonous, How Crafty, How Bad, Does Every Long War Make One, Which Cannot Be Waged Openly By Means Of Force!

Many People Wait Throughout Their Whole Lives For The Chance To Be Good In Their Own Fashion.

Where Does One Not Find That Bland Degeneration Which Beer Produces In The Spirit!

Sleep Is No Mean Art.

One Is Healthy When One Can Laugh At The Earnestness And Zeal With Which One Has Been Hypnotized By Any Single Detail Of One's Life.

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As Though "the Truth" Were Such An Innocent And Incompetent Creature As To Require Protectors!

The Bite Of Conscience Is Indecent.

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

Wherever I Found A Living Creature, There I Found The Will To Power.

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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.

One Has To Pay Dearly For Immortality; One Has To Die Several Times While One Is Still Alive.

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What Was A Lie In The Father Becomes A Conviction In The Son.

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The Universe Without Music Would Be Madness.

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Science And Art Have That In Common That Everyday Things Seem To Them New And Attractive.

Everyday Things

We Deceive Ourselves When Giving Respect To The Person For Whom We Have Surrendered Ourselves, When We Respectively Expect Them To Be As We Would Wish Them To Be.

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

He Who Is Punished Is Never He Who Performed The Deed. He Is Always The Scapegoat.

Whatever Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger.

Inspirational Tattoo

The Significance Of Language For The Evolution Of Culture Lies In This, That Mankind Set Up In Language A Separate World Beside The Other World, A Place It Took To Be So Firmly Set That, Standing Upon It, It Could Lift The Rest Of The World Off Its Hinges And Make Itself Master Of It. To The Extent That Man Has For Long Ages Believed In The Concepts And Names Of Things As In Aeternae Veritates He Has Appropriated To Himself That Pride By Which He Raised Himself Above The Animal: He Really Thought That In Language He Possessed Knowledge Of The World.

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In The Dark, Time Feels Different Than When It Is Light.

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?

Happiness Is The Feeling That Power Increases - That Resistance Is Being Overcome.

What Can Everyone Do? Praise And Blame. This Is Human Virtue, This Is Human Madness.

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For A Tree To Become Tall It Must Grow Tough Roots Among The Rocks.

One's Own Self Is Well Hidden From One's Own Self; Of All Mines Of Treasure, One's Own Is The Last To Be Dug Up.

Loving And Perishing: It's Been A Rhyme All These Eternities. The Will To Love: That Is, Also Being Willing To Die.

The Reasons And Purposes For Habits Are Always Lies That Are Added Only After Some People Begin To Attack These Habits And To Ask For Reasons And Purposes. At This Point The Conservatives Of All Ages Are Thoroughly Dishonest: They Add Lies.

Although The Most Acute Judges Of The Witches And Even The Witches Themselves, Were Convinced Of The Guilt Of Witchery, The Guilt Nevertheless Was Non-existent. It Is Thus With All Guilt.

But Eternal Liveliness Is What Counts: What Does "eternal Life" Matter, Or Life At All?

Before The Effect One Believes In Different Causes Than One Does After The Effect.

Anti-theses.- The Most Senile Thing Ever Thought About Man Is Contained In The Celebrated Saying 'the Ego Is Always Hateful'; The Most Childish Is The Even More Celebrated 'love Thy Neighbor As Thyself'. - In The Former, Knowledge Of Human Nature Has Ceased, In The Latter It Has Not Yet Even Begun.

Whom Do I Hate Most Among The Rabble Of Today? The Socialist Rabble, The Chandala Apostles, Who Undermine The Instinct, The Pleasure, The Worker's Sense Of Satisfaction With His Small Existence-who Make Him Envious, Who Teach Him Revenge. The Source Of Wrong Is Never Unequal Rights But The Claim Of "equal" Rights.

The Most Fatal Seductive Lie That Has Yet Existed

In His Lonely Solitude, The Solitary Man Feeds Upon Himself; In The Thronging Multitude, The Many Feed Upon Him. Now Choose.

When Horror Is Associated With What Is Harmful, Evil Results, When Disgust Does, Badness.

Art Is Not Merely An Imitation Of The Reality Of Nature, But In Truth A Metaphysical Supplement To The Reality Of Nature, Placed Alongside Thereof For Its Conquest.

The Lie Is A Condition Of Life.

The Worst Readers Are Those Who Behave Like Plundering Troops: They Take Away A Few Things They Can Use, Dirty And Confound The Remainder, And Revile The Whole.

Religious War Has Signified The Greatest Advance Of The Masses So Far, For It Proves That The Masses Have Begun To Treat Concepts With Respect.

There Is Perhaps Nothing So Admirable In Christianity And Buddhism As Their Art Of Teaching Even The Lowest To Elevate Themselves By Piety To A Seemingly Higher Order Of Things, And Thereby To Retain Their Satisfaction With The Actual World In Which They Find It Difficult Enough To Live - This Very Difficulty Being Necessary.

Only The Most Acute And Active Animals Are Capable Of Boredom.

Our Treasure Lies In The Beehive Of Our Knowledge. We Are Perpetually On The Way Thither, Being By Nature Winged Insects And Honey Gatherers Of The Mind.

I Overcame Myself, The Sufferer; I Carried My Own Ashes To The Mountains; I Invented A Brighter Flame For Myself.

Many Brief Follies--that Is What You Call Love. And Your Marriage Puts An End To Many Brief Follies, With A Single Long Stupidity.

Every Habit Makes Our Hand More Witty And Our Wit Less Handy.

He Who Possesseth Little Is So Much The Less Possessed. Blessed Be Moderate Poverty!

A Matter That Becomes Clear Ceases To Concern Us.--what Was That God Thinking Who Counseled, "know Thyself!" Did He Perhaps Mean,"cease To Concern Yourself! Become Objective!"--and Socrates?--and "scientific Men"?

The Surest Sign Of The Estrangement Of The Opinions Of Two Persons Is When They Both Say Something Ironical To Each Other And Neither Of Them Feels The Irony.

Faith, Indeed, Has Up To The Present Not Been Able To Move Real Mountains, Although I Do Not Know Who Assumed That It Could. But It Can Put Mountains Where There Are None.

Is It Not Better To Fall Into The Hands Of A Murderer, Than Into The Dreams Of A Lustful Woman?

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

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.

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.

The More You Let Yourself Go, The Less Others Let You Go.

What Saved Me Then? Nothing But Pregnancy. And Each Time After I Had Given Birth To My Work My Life Hung Suspended By A Thin Thread.

One Must Cease Letting Oneself Be Eaten When One Tastes Best: That Is Known To Those Who Want To Be Loved Long.

Help Thyself: Then Everyone Will Help Thee Too. Principle Of Christian Charity.

From Whatever You Wish To Know And Measure You Must Take Your Leave, At Least For A Time. Only When You Have Left The Town Can Yousee How High Its Towers Rise Above The Houses.

One Must Know How To Conserve Oneself- The Best Test Of Independence.

There Are No Eternal Facts, As There Are No Absolute Truths.

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.

I Love Him Who Is Of A Free Spirit And A Free Heart: Thus Is His Head Only The Bowels Of His Heart; His Heart, However, Causeth His Down-going.

Examine The Life Of The Best And Most Productive Men And Nations, And Ask Yourselves Whether A Tree Which Is To Grow Proudly Skywards Can Dispense With Bad Weather And Storms. Whether Misfortune And Opposition, Or Every Kind Of Hatred, Jealousy, Stubbornness, Distrust, Severity, Greed, And Violence Do Not Belong To The Favourable Conditions Without Which A Great Growth Even Of Virtue Is Hardly Possible?

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