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The Woman And The Genius Do Not Work. Up To Now, Woman Has Been Mankind's Supreme Luxury. In All Those Moments When We Do Our Best, We Do Not Work. Work Is Merely A Means To These Moments.

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The Woman And The Genius Do Not Work. Up To Now, Woman Has Been Mankind's Supreme Luxury. In All Those Moments When We Do Our Best, We Do Not Work. Work Is Merely A Means To These Moments.

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Let Thy Virtue Be Too High For The Familiarity Of Names, And If Thou Must Speak Of It, Be Not Ashamed To Stammer About It.

What Really Raises One's Indignation Against Suffering Is Not Suffering Intrinsically, But The Senselessness Of Suffering

When On A Sunday Morning We Hear The Old Bells Ring Out, We Ask Ourselves, "is It Possible! This Is Done On Account Of A Jew Crucified Two Thousand Years Ago Who Said He Was The Son Of God. The Proof Of Such An Assertion Is Wanting".

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

It Is, Indeed, A Fact That, In The Midst Of Society And Sociability Every Evil Inclination Has To Place Itself Under Such Great Restraint, Don So Many Masks, Lay Itself So Often On The Procrustean Bed Of Virtue, That One Could Well Speak Of A Martyrdom Of The Evil Man. In Solitude All This Falls Away. He Who Is Evil Is At His Most Evil In Solitude: Which Is Where He Is At His Best - And Thus To The Eye Of Him Who Sees Everywhere Only A Spectacle Also At His Most Beautiful.

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

One Had Better Put On Gloves Before Handling The New Testament. The Presence Of So Much Filth Makes It Highly Advisable.

You May Lie With Your Mouth, But With The Mouth You Make As You Do So You None The Less Tell The Truth.

Three Metamorphoses Of The Spirit I Relate To You: How The Spirit Becomes A Camel; And The Camel, A Lion; And The Lion, Finally, A Child.

We Must Understand How To Hide In Darkness In Order To Escape The Gnat-swarms Of Utterly Annoying Admirers.

The Greatest Giver Of Alms Is Cowardice.

Mastery.- We Have Reached Mastery When We Neither Mistake Nor Hesitate In The Achievement.

One Must First Be Firmly Set In Oneself, One Must Stand Securely On One's Own Two Legs Otherwise One Cannot Love At All.

Blessed Are The Forgetful: For They Get The Better Even Of Their Blunders.

Eternal Sunshine

All Names Of Good And Evil Are Images; They Do Not Speak Out, They Only Hint. He Is A Fool Who Seeks Knowledge From Them.

What Is It That Endowed Things With Meaning, Value, Significance? The Creating Heart, Which Desired, And, Out Of Its Desire, Created. It Created Joy And Woe. It Wanted To Satiate Itself With Woe. We Must Take All The Suffering That Has Been Endured By Men And Animals Upon Ourselves And Affirm It, And Possess A Goal In Which It Acquires Reason.

Alas! There Cometh The Time When Man Will No Longer Give Birth To Any Star. Alas! There Cometh The Time Of The Most Despicable Man, Who Can No Longer Despise Himself.

The Surest Sign That Two People No Longer Speak The Same Language Is That Both Say Ironic Things To One Another But That Neither Senses The Irony.

To Go On Vegetating In Cowardly Dependence On Physicians And Machinations, After The Meaning Of Life, The Right To Life, Has Been Lost, That Ought To Prompt A Profound Contempt In Society.

Meaning Of Life

What Verse Is For The Poet, Dialectical Thinking Is For The Philosopher. He Grasps For It In Order To Get Hold Of His Own Enchantment, In Order To Perpetuate It.

Envy And Jealousy Are The Private Parts Of The Human Soul. Perhaps The Comparison Can Be Extended.

The Noble Caste Was In The Beginning Always The Barbarian Caste: Their Superiority Lay, Not In Their Physical Strength, But Primarily In Their Psychical - They Were More Complete Human Beings.

Physical Strength

The Most Dangerous Physicians Are Those Born Actors Who Imitate Born Physicians With A Perfectly Deceptive Guile.

Every Profound Spirit Needs A Mask: Even More, Around Every Profound Spirit A Mask Is Continually Growing.

Or Shall I Go Out As A Light Does, Not First Blown Out By The Wind, But Grown Tired And Weary Of Itself - A Burnt Out Light? Or Finally, Shall I Blow Myself Out, So As Not To Burn Out?

Against Boredom The Gods Themselves Fight In Vain.

Without Forgetting It Is Quite Impossible To Live At All.

Ultimately, No One Can Extract From Things, Books Included, More Than He Already Knows.

One Has To Know The Size Of One's Stomach.

Woman Learns How To Hate In Proportion As She Forgets How To Charm.

As Soon As We Are Shown The Existence Of Something Old In A New Thing, We Are Pacified.

And Many Such Good Inventions Are There, That They Are Like Woman's Breasts: Useful At The Same Time, And Pleasant.

In Every Real Man A Child Is Hidden That Wants To Play.

Our Crime Against Criminals Lies In The Fact That We Treat Them Like Rascals.

In The Whole Of The New Testament There Is Not One Joke, That Fact Alone Would Invalidate Any Book.

A Nation That Still Believes In Itself Holds Fast To Its Own God.

That For Which We Find Words Is Something Already Dead In Our Hearts.

In The Mountains Of Truth, You Never Climb In Vain.

This Is The Manner Of Noble Souls: They Do Not Want To Have Anything For Nothing; Least Of All, Life. Whoever Is Of The Mob Wants To Live For Nothing; We Others, However, To Whom Life Gave Itself, We Always Think About What We Might Best Give In Return... One Should Not Wish To Enjoy Where One Does Not Give Joy.

I Want To Learn More And More To See As Beautiful What Is Necessary In Things:—then I Shall Be One Of Those Who Make Things Beautiful. Amor Fati: Let That Be My Love From Henceforth!

One Man Runs To His Neighbor Because He Is Looking For Himself, And Another Because He Wants To Loose Himself. Your Bad Love Of Yourselves Makes Solitude A Prison For You.

In The Consciousness Of The Truth He Has Perceived, Man Now Sees Everywhere Only The Awfulness Or The Absurdity Of Existence And Loathing Seizes Him.

On The Heights It Is Warmer Than People In The Valley Suppose, Especially In Winter. The Thinker Recognizes The Full Import Of This Simile.

And If Your Friend Does Evil To You, Say To Him, ''i Forgive You For What You Did To Me, But How Can I Forgive You For What You Did To Yourself?

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When, However, You Have An Enemy, Then Do Not Requite Him Good For Evil: For That Would Shame Him. Instead, Prove That He Did Some Good For You. And Rather Be Angry Than Put To Shame! And When You Are Cursed, I Do Not Like It That You Want To Bless. Rather Curse A Little Also! And If You Are Done A Great Injustice, Then Quickly Add Five Small Ones. Hideous To Behold Is He Who Is Obsessed With An Injustice.

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He Who Climbeth On The Highest Mountains, Laugheth At All Tragic Plays And Tragic Realities.

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Where The Past Is Venerated The Clean And Those Who Clean Things Up Should Be Kept Out. Piety Is Never Happy Without A Little Dust, Dirt, And Rubbish.

Art Depends Upon The Inexactitude Of Sight.

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.

The State Lies In All Languages Of Good And Evil; And Whatever It Says, It Lies-and Whatever It Has, It Has Stolen.

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Humility Has The Toughest Hide.

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I And Me Are Always Too Deeply In Conversation.

Whoever Writes In Blood And Aphorisms Wants Not To Be Learned But To Be Learned By Heart.

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I Have Learned To Walk: Since Then I Have Run. I Have Learned To Fly: Since Then I Do Not Have To Be Pushed In Order To Move. Now I Am Nimble, Now I Fly, Now I See Myself Under Myself, Now A God Dances Within Me.

Pardon Me, My Friends, I Have Ventured To Paint My Happiness On The Wall.

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One Ought To Hold On To One's Heart; For If One Lets It Go, One Soon Loses Control Of The Head Too.

Necessity Is Not A Fact; It's An Interpretation.

Iron Necessity Is A Thing Which In The Course Of History Men Come To See As Neither Iron Nor Necessary.

Against The Censurers Of Brevity. - Something Said Briefly Can Be The Fruit Of Much Long Thought: But The Reader Who Is A Novice In This Field, And Has As Yet Reflected On It Not At All, Sees In Everything Said Briefly Something Embryonic, Not Without Censuring The Author For Having Served Him Up Such Immature And Unripened Fare.

Everything Goes, Everything Comes Back; Eternally Rolls The Wheel Of Being. Everything Dies, Everything Blossoms Again; Eternally Runs The Year Of Being. Everything Breaks, Everything Is Joined Anew; Eternally The Same House Of Being Is Built. Everything Parts, Everything Greets Every Other Thing Again; Eternally The Ring Of Being Remains Faithful To Itself. In Every Now, Being Begins; Round Every Here Rolls The Sphere There. The Center Is Everywhere. Bent Is The Path Of Eternity.

The Last Christian Died On A Cross.

In Order To Be Somebody You Have To Hold Even Your Shadow In High Regard.

Our Shortcomings Are The Eyes With Which We See The Ideal.

The Abdomen Is The Reason Why Man Does Not Readily Take Himself To Be A God.

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A Person Must Have A Good Memory To Keep The Promises He Has Made. A Person Must Have A Strong Imagination To Be Able To Have Pity. So Closely Is Morality Tied To The Quality Of The Intellect.

The Great Poet Draws His Creations Only From Out Of His Own Reality.

The Wheel And The Brake Have Different Duties, But Also One In Common: To Hurt One Another.

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

The Advantage Of A Bad Memory Is That One Enjoys Several Times The Same Good Things For The First Time.

Funny Inspirational

The Value Of Life Itself Cannot Be Estimated.

The Perfect Woman Perpetrates Literature As She Perpetrates A Small Sin: As An Experiment, In Passing, Glancing Around To See Whether Anybody Notices--and To Make Sure That Somebody Notices.

For One Thing Is Needful: That A Human Being Should Attain Satisfaction With Himself, Whether It Be By Means Of This Or That Poetry Or Art; Only Then Is A Human Being At All Tolerable To Behold. Whoever Is Dissatisfied With Himself Is Constantly Ready For Revenge, And We Others Will Be His Victims, If Only By Having To Endure His Ugly Sight.

Mystical Explanations Are Thought To Be Deep; The Truth Is That They Are Not Even Shallow.

No Power Can Be Maintained When It Is Only Represented By Hypocrites.

Winter, A Bad Guest, Sitteth With Me At Home; Blue Are My Hands With His Friendly Handshaking

A Nation Is A Detour Of Nature To Arrive At Five Or Six Great Men- Yes, And Then To Get Around Them.

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

Human Condition

We Become Aware, However, That All Customs, Even The Hardest, Grow Pleasanter And Milder With Time, And That The Severest Way Of Life May Become A Habit And Therefore A Pleasure.

One Must Have All The Virtues To Sleep Well. Shall I Bear False Witness? Shall I Commit Adultery? Shall I Covet My Neighbor's Maid? All That Would Go Ill With Good Sleep.

If You Stare Into The Abyss Long Enough The Abyss Stares Back At You.

Every True Faith Is Infallible. It Performs What The Believing Person Hopes To Find In It. But It Does Not Offer The Least Support For The Establishing Of An Objective Truth. Here The Ways Of Men Divide. If You Want To Achieve Peace Of Mind And Happiness, Have Faith. If You Want To Be A Disciple Of Truth, Then Search.

When Our Brain Feels Too Weak To Deal With Our Opponent's Objections, Our Heart Answers By Casting Suspicion On Their Underlying Motives.

There Is Nothing More Necessary Than Truth, And In Comparison With It Everything Else Has Only Secondary Value. This Absolute Will To Truth: What Is It? Is It The Will To Not Allow Ourselves To Be Deceived? Is It The Will Not To Deceive? One Does Not Want To Be Deceived, Under The Supposition That It Is Injurious, Dangerous, Or Fatal To Be Deceived.

Every Power Draws Its Ultimate Consequences At Every Moment.

There Is In General Good Reason To Suppose That In Several Respects The Gods Could All Benefit From Instruction By Us Human Beings. We Humans Are - More Humane.

I Might Believe In The Redeemer If His Followers Looked More Redeemed.

The Enormous Expectation Having To Do With Sexual Love And The Shame Involved In This Expectation Degrades All A Woman's Perspectives From The Start.

Once You Were Apes, Yet Even Now Man Is More Of An Ape Than Any Of The Apes.

The Wisest Man Would Be The One Richest In Contradictions, Who Has, As It Were, Antennae For All Types Of Men---as Well As His Great Moments Of Grand Harmony---a Rare Accident Even In Us! A Sort Of Planetary Motion---

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

An Educator Never Says What He Himself Thinks, But Only That Which He Thinks It Is Good For Those Whom He Is Educating To Hear.

The Magnitude Of A Progress Is Gauged By The Greatness Of The Sacrifice That It Requires.

One Has Been A Poor Spectator Of Life If One Has Not Witnessed The Hand - That Kills From Mercy.

Faith Means The Will To Avoid Knowing What Is True.

The Purpose Of Criminal Law Is To Punish The Enemies Of Those In Power.

When A Man Has Just Been Greatly Honored And Has Eaten A Little He Is The Most Generous.

Man Makes God In His Own Image.

The Body Is A Big Sagacity, A Plurality With One Sense, A War And A Peace, A Flock And A Shepherd.

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

He Who Fights With Monsters Might Take Care Lest He Thereby Become A Monster. Is Not Life A Hundred Times Too Short For Us To Bore Ourselves?

In The World Of High Finance The Shilling Of The Idle Rich Man Can Buy More Than That Of The Poor, Industrious Man.

This Is The Fundamental Idea Of Culture, Insofar As It Sets But One Task For Each Of Us: To Further The Production Of The Philosopher, Of The Artist, And Of The Saint Within Us And Outside Us, And Thereby To Work At The Consummation Of Nature.

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

Whoever Aims Publicly At Great Things And At Length Perceives Secretly That He Is Too Weak To Achieve Them, Has Usually Also Insufficient Strength To Renounce His Aims Publicly, And Then Inevitably Becomes A Hypocrite.

But In The End One Also Has To Understand That The Needs That Religion Has Satisfied And Philosophy Is Now Supposed To Satisfy Are Not Immutable; They Can Be Weakened And Exterminated. Consider, For Example, That Christian Distress Of Mind That Comes From Sighing Over Ones Inner Depravity And Care For Ones Salvation - All Concepts Originating In Nothing But Errors Of Reason And Deserving, Not Satisfaction, But Obliteration.

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

Pollution Control

Buddha Says: "do Not Flatter Your Benefactor!". Let One Repeat This Saying In A Christian Church : It Immediately Purifies The Air Of Everything Christian.

The Snake Which Cannot Cast Its Skin Has To Die. As Well The Minds Which Are Prevented From Changing Their Opinions; They Cease To Be Mind.

Early In The Morning, At Break Of Day, In All The Freshness And Dawn Of One's Strength, To Read A Book -i Call That Vicious!

Perhaps I Know Best Why It Is Man Alone Who Laughs; He Alone Suffers So Deeply That He Had To Invent Laughter.

Smooth Iceis Paradisefor Those Who Dance With Expertise.

Fanatics Are Picturesque, Mankind Would Rather See Gestures Than Listen To Reasons.

We Believe That We Know Something About The Things Themselves When We Speak Of Trees, Colors, Snow, And Flowers; And Yet We Possess Nothing But Metaphors For Things - Metaphors Which Correspond In No Way To The Original Entities.

Life Is That Which Must Overcome Itself Again And Again

Again And Again

We Are, All Of Us, Growing Volcanoes That Approach The Hour Of Their Eruption, But How Near Or Distant That Is, Nobody Knows- Not Even God.

Art Is The Proper Task Of Life.

Memory Says, 'i Did That.' Pride Replies, 'i Could Not Have Done That.' Eventually, Memory Yields.

All Signs Of Superhuman Nature Appear In Man As Illness Or Insanity.

The English Are The People Of Consummate Cant.

I Love Him Who Desireth Not Too Many Virtues. One Virtue Is More Of A Virtue Than Two, Because It Is More Of A Knot For One's Destiny To Cling To.

Just As Soon As We Notice That Someone Has To Force Himself To Pay Attention When Dealing And Talking With Us, We Have A Valid Demonstration That He Does Not Love Us Or That He Does Not Love Us Anymore.

The Creation Of Freedom For Oneself And A Sacred "no" Even To Duty -- For That, My Brothers, The Lion Is Needed.

Speaking Generally, Punishment Hardens And Numbs, It Produces Concentration, It Sharpens The Consciousness Of Alienation, It Strengthens The Power Of Resistance.

No More Fiction, For Now We Calculate; But That We May Calculate, We Had To Make Fiction First.

Preparatory Human Beings. - I Welcome All Signs That A More Virile, Warlike Age Is About To Begin, Which Will Restore Honour To Courage Above All! For This Age Shall Prepare The Way For One Yet Higher, And It Shall Gather The Strength That This Higher Age Will Require Some Day - The Age That Will Carry Heroism Into The Search For Knowledge And That Will Wage Wars For The Sake Of Ideas And Their Consequences.

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.

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

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!

Every Man Who Has Declared That Some Other Man Is An Ass Or A Scoundrel, Gets Angry When The Other Man Conclusively Shows That The Assertion Was Erroneous.

My Brother, Are War And Battle Evil? Necessary, However, Is The Evil; Necessary Are The Envy And The Distrust And The Back-biting Among The Virtues.

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.

Blessed Are The Sleepy Ones: For They Shall Soon Drop Off.

All Truths Are Bloody Truths To Me.

An Important Species Of Pleasure, And Therewith The Source Of Morality, Arises Out Of Habit.

The "religion Of Pity" To Which People Would Like To Convert Us- Oh, We Know Well Enough The Hysterical Little Men And Women Who Need This Religion At Present As A Veil And An Adornment!

But Anyone Who Has Really Made Sacrifices Knows That He Wanted And Got Something In Return Perhaps Something For Something Of Himself - That He Gave Up In Order To Have More Here Or At Least To Feel That He Has "more".

This Is What Is Hardest: To Close The Open Hand Because One Loves.

Inspirational Love

[heraclitus Had] A Regal Air Of Certainty.

There Is One Thing One Has To Have Either A Soul That Is Cheerful By Nature, Or A Soul Made Cheerful By Work, Love, Art, And Knowledge.

You Want To Be Paid As Well, You Virtuous! You Want Reward For Virtue, And Heaven For Earth, And Eternity For Your Today?

I Want To Learn More And More To See As Beautiful What Is Necessary In Things; Then I Shall Be One Of Those Who Make Things Beautiful. Amor Fati: Let That Be My Love Henceforth! I Do Not Want To Wage War Against What Is Ugly. I Do Not Want To Accuse; I Do Not Even Want To Accuse Those Who Accuse. Looking Away Shall Be My Only Negation. And All In All And On The Whole: Some Day I Wish To Be Only A Yes-sayer.

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

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

Whatever Harm The Evil May Do, The Harm Done By The Good Is The Most Harmful Harm.

I Love Him Who Laboureth And Inventeth, That He May Build The House For The Superman, And Prepare For Him Earth, Animal, And Plant: For Thus Seeketh He His Own Down-going.

Egoism Is The Law Of Perspective Applied To Feelings: What Is Closest Appears Large And Weighty, And As One Moves Farther Away Size And Weight Decrease.

What Is Bad? -everything That Arises From Weakness.

Noble And Wise Men Once Believed In The Music Of The Spheres: Noble And Wise Men Still Continue To Believe In The "moral Significance Of Existence." But One Day Even This Sphere-music Will No Longer Be Audible To Them! They Will Wake Up And Take Note That Their Ears Were Dreaming.

If A Temple Is To Be Erected, A Temple Must Be Destroyed .

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

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