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The Will To Incessant Creation Is Vulgar, Betraying Jealousy, Envy, And Ambition. Assuming That You Are Something, There Is Really Nothing That You Need To Do-and Yet You Do A Great Deal. Above The "productive" Man There Is Still A Higher Type.

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The Will To Incessant

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Will To Incessant Creation Is Vulgar, Betraying Jealousy, Envy, And Ambition. Assuming That You Are Something, There Is Really Nothing That You Need To Do-and Yet You Do A Great Deal. Above The "productive" Man There Is Still A Higher Type.

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The Most Instructive Experiences Are Those Of Everyday Life.

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Again And Again

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When One Does Away With Oneself One Does The Most Estimable Thing Possible: One Thereby Almost Deserves To Live.

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In Every Party There Is One Person Who, Through His Dotingly Credulous Enunciation Of Party Principles, Incites The Other Members To Defection.

When Self Control Is Lacking In Small Things, The Ability To Apply It To Matters Of Importance Withers Away. Every Day In Which One Does Not At Least Deny Himself Some Trifle Is Badly Spent And A Threat To The Day Following.

I Love Those Who Do Not Know How To Live For Today.

Go Up Close To Your Friend, But Do Not Go Over To Him! We Should Also Respect The Enemy In Our Friend.

Every Word Is A Preconceived Judgment.

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For Our Self Respect Depends Upon Our Ability To Make Requital, For Good Or For Evil.

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We Must Be Cruel As Well As Compassionate: Let Us Guard Against Becoming Poorer Than Nature Is!

From The Sun Did I Learn This, When It Goeth Down, The Exuberant One: Gold Doth It Then Pour Into The Sea, Out Of Inexhaustible Riches, -so That The Poorest Fisherman Roweth Even With Golden Oars! For This Did I Once See, And Did Not Tire Of Weeping In Beholding It. - Like The Sun Will Also Zarathustra Go Down: Now Sitteth He Here And Waiteth, Old Broken Tables Around Him, And Also New Tables Half-written.

Society Tames The Wolf Into A Dog. And Man Is The Most Domesticated Animal Of All.

The Charm Of Knowledge Would Be Small Indeed, Were It Not That There Is So Much Shame To Be Overcome On The Way To It.

Some Mothers Need Happy Children; Others Need Unhappy Ones-otherwise They Cannot Prove Their Maternal Virtues.

I Notice That Autumn Is More The Season Of The Soul Than Of Nature.

Man Is More Ape Than Many Of The Apes.

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There Are Preachers Of Death: And The Earth Is Full Of Those To Whom Desistance From Life Must Be Preached.

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