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The Perfect Woman Is A Higher Type Of Humanity Than The Perfect Man, And Also Something Much Rarer. The Natural History Of Animals Furnishes Grounds In Support Of This Theory.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Perfect Woman Is A Higher Type Of Humanity Than The Perfect Man, And Also Something Much Rarer. The Natural History Of Animals Furnishes Grounds In Support Of This Theory.

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And If A Man Goes Through Fire For His Doctrine - What Does That Prove? Verily, It Is More If Your Own Doctrine Comes Out Of Your Own Fire.

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Extreme Positions Are Not Succeeded By Moderate Ones But By Extreme Positions Of The Opposite Kind.

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

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

Pollution Control

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I Fear That, With Our Current Veneration For The Natural And The Real, We Have Arrived At The Opposite Pole To All Idealism, And Have Landed In The Region Of The Waxworks.

The Value Of Life Itself Cannot Be Estimated.

A Casual Stroll Through The Lunatic Asylum Shows That Faith Does Not Prove Anything.

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

He Who Denies Himself Much In Great Matters Will Readily Indulge Himself In Small Things.

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A Refined Soul Is Distressed To Know That Someone Owes It Thanks; A Crude Soul, To Know That It Owes Someone Thanks.

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Higher Than "thou Shalt" Stands "i Will" (the Heroes), And Higher Than "i Will" Stands "i Am" (the Greek Gods).

One Sticks To An Opinion Because He Prides Himself On Having Come To It On His Own, And Another Because He Has Taken Great Pains To Learn It And Is Proud To Have Grasped It: And So Both Do So Out Of Vanity.

The Ordinary Man Is As Courageous And Invulnerable As A Hero When He Does Not Recognize Any Danger, When He Has No Eyes To See It.conversely, The Hero's Only Vulnerable Spot Is On His Back, And So Exactly Where He Has No Eyes.

When One Thinks Profusely And Cleverly, Not Only His Face But His Body Too Takes On A Clever Appearance.

Triumph Depends On A Roll Of Fate's Dice; The Ultimate Prize Is A Place In Heaven.

Those Who Are Devoid Of Purpose Will Make The Void Their Purpose.

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

Life, And You, And I, And All Of Us Together Became For A While Interesing To Ourselves Once More.

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.

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

One Must Give Value To Their Existence By Behaving As If Ones Very Existence Were A Work Of Art.

No One Can Construct For You The Bridge Upon Which Precisely You Must Cross The Stream Of Life, No One But You Yourself Alone.

From People Who Merely Pray We Must Become People Who Bless.

There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations.

What Is The Ape To Man? A Laughing-stock Or A Painful Embarrassment. And Just That Shall Man Be For The Superman: A Laughing-stock Or A Painful Embarrassment.

The Press, The Machine, The Railway, The Telegraph Are Premises Whose Thousand-year Conclusion No One Has Yet Dared To Draw.

"god", "immortality Of The Soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without Exception, Concepts To Which I Have Never Devoted Any Attention, Or Time; Not Even As A Child. Perhaps I Have Never Been Childlike Enough For Them? I Do Not By Any Means Know Atheism As A Result; Even Less As An Event: It Is A Matter Of Course With Me, From Instinct. I Am Too Inquisitive, Too Questionable, Too Exuberant To Stand For Any Gross Answer. God Is A Gross Answer, An Indelicacy Against Us Thinkers - At Bottom Merely A Gross Prohibition For Us: You Shall Not Think!

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading The Way. No Stream Is Large And Copious Of Itself, But Becomes Great By Receiving And Leading On So Many Tributary Streams. It Is So, Also, With All Intellectual Greatness, It Is Only A Question Of Someone Indicating The Direction To Be Followed By So Many Affluent; Not Whether He Was Richly Or Poorly Gifted Originally.

One Who Is Publicly Honest About Himself Ends Up By Priding Himself Somewhat On This Honesty: For He Knows Only Too Well Why He Is Honest-for The Same Reasons Another Person Prefers Illusion And Dissimulation.

We Should Not Talk About Our Friends: Otherwise We Will Talk Away The Feeling Of Friendship.

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

What Is Wrong With Christianity Is That It Refrains From Doing All Those Things That Christ Commanded Should Be Done.

I Know The Hatred And Envy Of Your Hearts. Ye Are Not Great Enough Not To Know Of Hatred And Envy. Then Be Great Enough Not To Be Ashamed Of Them!

One Loves Ultimately One's Desires, Not The Thing Desired.

Beyond Good And Evil

We Only Hear Questions That We Are Able To Answer.

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

Women Are Constituted In Such A Way That All Truth (regarding Men, Love, Children, Society, The Purpose Of Life) Disgusts Them, And In Such A Way That They Try To Revenge Themselves On Anyone Who Opens Their Eyes.

It Is An End With Priests And Gods, If Man Becomes Scientific. Moral: Science Is The Thing Forbidden In Itself - It Alone Is Forbidden. Science Is The First Sin, The Germ Of All Sin, Original Sin. This Alones Is Mortality: Thou Shalt Not Know.

One Does Not Kill By Anger But By Laughter.

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?

Existence Really Is An Imperfect Tense That Never Becomes A Present.

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

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

Guilty Conscience

Scholarship Has The Same Relationship To Wisdom As Righteousness Has To Holiness: It Is Cold And Dry, It Is Loveless And Knows Nodeep Feelings Of Inadequacy Or Longing.

There Are The Spiritually Consumptive Ones: Hardly Are They Born When They Begin To Die, And Long For Doctrines Of Lassitude And Renunciation.

Whoever Reaches His Ideal Transcends It Eo Ipso.

One Does Not Only Wish To Be Understood When One Writes; One Wishes Just As Surely Not To Be Understood.

We No Longer Love Our Knowledge Enough Once We Have Passed It On.

Strength Is The Morality Of The Man Who Stands Out From The Rest, And It Is Mine.

It Is Not To Everyone's Taste That Truth Should Be Pronounced Pleasant. But At Least Let No One Believe That Error Becomes Truth When It Is Pronounced Unpleasant.

They're So Cold, These Scholars! May Lightning Strike Their Food So That Their Mouths Learn How To Eat Fire!

We Have To Learn How To Come Out Of Unclean Situations Cleaner Than We Were, And Even How To Wash Ourselves With Dirty Water Whenwe Need To.

A Man Far Oftener Appears To Have A Decided Character From Persistently Following His Temperament Than From Persistently Following His Principles.

If Islam Despises Christianity, It Has A Thousandfold Right To Do So: Islam At Least Assumes That It Is Dealing With Men.

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

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.

Thoughts Are The Shadows Of Our Feelings - Always Darker, Emptier And Simpler.

They Muddy The Water, To Make It Seem Deep.

Those Who Are Bent On Revolutionizing Society May Be Divided Into Those Who Seek Something For Themselves Thereby And Those Who Seek Something For Their Children And Grandchildren.

What Someone Is, Begins To Be Revealed When His Talent Abates, When He Stops Showing Us What He Can Do.

It Is Certainly Not The Least Charm Of A Theory That It Is Refutable.

It Is Not Enough To Prove Something, One Also Has To Seduce Or Elevate People To It. That Is Why The Man Of Knowledge Should Learns How To Speak His Wisdom: And Often In Such A Way That It Sounds Like Folly!

But He Who Is Hated By The People, As The Wolf By The Dogs - Is The Free Spirit, The Enemy Of Fetters, The Non-adorer, The Dweller In The Woods.

What Is The Strongest Cure?--victory.

Many Die Too Late, And Some Die Too Early. Yet Strangers Soundeth The Precept: "die At The Right Time!"

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

Be Careful Who You Choose As Your Enemy Because That's Who You Become Most Like.

A Book Should Long For Pen, Ink, And Writing-table: But Usually It Is Pen, Ink, And Writing-table That Long For A Book. That Is Why Books Are So Negligible Nowadays.

When One Gives Up Christian Belief One Thereby Deprives Oneself Of The Right To Christian Morality. For The Latter Is Absolutely Not Self-evident: One Must Make This Point Clear Again And Again, In Spite Of English Shallowpates.

We Ought To Learn From The Kine One Thing: Ruminating.

Admiration For A Quality Or An Art Can Be So Strong That It Deters Us From Striving To Possess It.

We Set No Special Value On The Possession Of A Virtue Until We Percieve That It Is Entirely Lacking In Our Adversary.

Whoever Fights Monsters Should See To It That In The Process He Does Not Become A Monster. And If You Gaze Long Enough Into An Abyss, The Abyss Will Gaze Back Into You.

The Higher Its Type, The More Rarely A Thing Succeeds.

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