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The Rights A Man Arrogates To Himself Are Related To The Duties He Imposes On Himself, To The Tasks To Which He Feels Equal. The Great Majority Of Men Have No Right To Existence, But Are A Misfortune To Higher Men.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Rights A Man

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Rights A Man Arrogates To Himself Are Related To The Duties He Imposes On Himself, To The Tasks To Which He Feels Equal. The Great Majority Of Men Have No Right To Existence, But Are A Misfortune To Higher Men.

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Compulsion Precedes Morality, Indeed Morality Itself Is Compulsion For A Time, To Which One Submits For The Avoidance Of Pain.

There Is Always Some Madness In Love.

The Mother Of Excess Is Not Joy But Joylessness.

That Lies Should Be Necessary To Life Is Part And Parcel Of The Terrible And Questionable Character Of Existence.

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

One Is Fruitful Only At The Cost Of Being Rich In Contradictions.

All Idealism Is Falsehood In The Face Of Necessity.

Men Subsequently Put Whatever Is Newly Learned Or Experienced To Use As A Plowshare, Perhaps Even As A Weapon: But Women Immediately Include It Among Their Ornaments.

Youth Is An Unpleasant Period; For Then It Is Not Possible Or Not Prudent To Be Productive In Any Sense Whatsoever.

Take A Chance And Try My Fare! It Will Grow On You, I Swear; Soon It Will Taste Good To You!

Women And Egoistic Artists Entertain A Feeling Towards Science That Is Something Composed Of Envy And Sentimentality.

It Is Not When It Is Dangerous To Tell The Truth That Its Advocates Are Hardest To Find, But When It Is Boring.

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.

They Would Have To Sing Better Songs For Me To Learn To Have Faith In Their Redeemer; And His Disciples Would Have To Look More Redeemed!

Read From A Distant Star, The Majuscule Script Of Our Earthly Existence Would Perhaps Lead To The Conclusion That The Earth Was The Distinctively Ascetic Planet, A Nook Of Disgruntled, Arrogant Creatures Filled With A Profound Disgust With Themselves, At The Earth, At All Life, Who Inflict As Much Pain On Themselves As They Possibly Can Out Of Pleasure In Inflicting Pain Which Is Probably Their Only Pleasure.

The Bad Gains Respect Through Imitation, The Good Loses It Especially In Art.

Vanity Is The Fear Of Appearing Original: It Is Thus A Lack Of Pride, But Not Necessarily A Lack Of Originality.

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

Under Conditions Of Peace The Warlike Man Attacks Himself.

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And As Long As You Are In Any Way Ashamed Before Yourself, You Do Not Yet Belong With Us.

Every Tradition Grows Continually More Venerable, And The More Remote Its Origins, The More This Is Lost Sight Of. The Veneration Paid The Tradition Accumulates From Generation To Generation, Until It At Last Becomes Holy And Excites Awe.

I Condemn Christianity; I Bring Against The Christian Church The Most Terrible Of All Accusations That An Accuser Has Ever Had In His Mouth. It Is, To Me, The Greatest Of All Imaginable Corruptions; It Seeks To Work The Ultimate Corruption, The Worse Possible Corruption. The Christian Church Has Left Nothing Untouched By Its Depravity; It Has Turned Every Value Into Worthlessness, And Every Truth Into A Lie, And Every Integrity Into Baseness Of Soul.

Every Extension Of Knowledge Arises From Making The Conscious The Unconscious.

In Solitude The Lonely Man Is Eaten Up By Himself, Among Crowds By The Many.

I Understand By 'freedom Of Spirit' Something Quite Definite - The Unconditional Will To Say No, Where It Is Dangerous To Say No.

I Will Believe In The Redeemer When The Christians Look A Little More Redeemed.

What Is The Vanity Of The Vainest Man Compared With The Vanity Which The Most Modest Possesses When, In The Midst Of Nature And The World, He Feels Himself To Be Man!

Growth In Wisdom Can Be Measured Precisely By Decline In Bile.

Whenever The Strength Of A Belief Strongly Steps Into The Foreground, We Must Infer A Certain Weakness Of Demonstrability And The Improbability Of That Belief.

Both Classically- And Romantically-minded Spirits-inasmuch As These Two Species Always Exist-occupy Themselves With A Vision Of The Future: But The Former Do So Out Of A Strength Of Their Age, The Latter Out Of Its Weakness.

Visions Of The Future

To The Good Warrior Soundeth "thou Shalt" Pleasanter Than "i Will." And All That Is Dear Unto You, Ye Shall First Have It Commanded Unto You.

Insects Sting, Not From Malice, But Because They Want To Live. It Is The Same With Critics; They Desire Our Blood Not Our Pain.

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All Of Life Is A Dispute Over Taste And Tasting.

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Light For Some Time To Come Will Have To Be Called Darkness.

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Not To Him Who Is Offensive To Us Are We Most Unfair, But To Him Who Doth Not Concern Us At All.

When I Was Twelve Years Old I Thought Up An Odd Trinity: Namely, God The Father, God The Son, And God The Devil. My Inference Wasthat God, In Contemplating Himself, Created The Second Person Of The Godhead; But That, In Order To Be Able To Contemplate Himself, He Had To Contemplate, And Thus To Create, His Opposite.--with This I Began To Do Philosophy.

All Great Things Must First Wear Terrifying And Monstrous Masks, In Order To Inscribe Themselves On The Hearts Of Humanity.

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

Everyday Things

That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger.

It Is Difficult To Live Among People Because Silence Is So Difficult.

The Value Of A Man Can Only Be Measured With Regard To Other Men.

When One Speaks Of Humanity, The Idea Is Fundamental That This Is Something Which Separates And Distinguishes Man From Nature. In Reality, However, There Is No Such Separation: "natural" Qualities And Those Called Truly "human" Are Inseparably Grown Together. Man, In His Highest And Noblest Capacities, Is Wholly Nature And Embodies Its Uncanny Dual Character. Those Of His Abilities Which Are Terrifying And Considered Inhuman May Even Be The Fertile Soil Out Of Which Alone All Humanity Can Grow In Impulse, Deed, And Work.

I Am A Forest, And A Night Of Dark Trees: But He Who Is Not Afraid Of My Darkness, Will Find Banks Full Of Roses Under My Cypresses.

In Being Wildly Natural We Recover Best From Being Unnatural, From Being Spiritual.

The Mouth May Lie, Alright, But The Face It Makes Nonetheless Tells The Truth.

As A Result, Nature Is Something Entirely Different From What Comes To Mind When We Invoke Its Name.

When Death Brings At Last The Desired Forgetfulness, It Abolishes Life And Being Together, And Sets The Seal On The Knowledge That "being" Is Merely A Continual "has Been," A Thing That Lives By Denying And Destroying And Contradicting Itself.

Liberalism Is The Transformation Of Mankind Into Cattle.

Verily, I Do Not Like Them, The Merciful Who Feel Blessed In Their Pity: They Are Lacking Too Much In Shame. If I Must Pity, At Least I Do Not Want It Known; And If I Do Pity, It Is Preferably From A Distance.

Carlyle, A Man Of Strong Words And Attitudes, A Rhetorician Out Of Necessity, Constantly Aroused By The Craving For A Strong Faithas Well As By The Feeling Of An Incapacity For It (min This Respect A Typical Romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle Is An English Atheist Who Makes It A Point Of Honor Not To Be One.

Kindliness, Friendliness, The Courtesy Of The Heart, Are Ever-flowing Streams Of Non Egoistic Impulses, And Have Given Far More Powerful Assistance To Culture Than Even Those Much More Famous Demonstrations Which Are Called Pity, Mercy, And Self-sacrifice.

Give Me Today, For Once, The Worst Throw Of Your Dice, Destiny. Today I Transmute Everything Into Gold.

Time, Space, And Causality Are Only Metaphors Of Knowledge, With Which We Explain Things To Ourselves.

When One Rows It Is Not The Rowing Which Moves The Ship: Rowing Is Only A Magical Ceremony By Means Of Which One Compels A Demon To Move The Ship.

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