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We Operate With Nothing But Things Which Do Not Exist, With Lines, Planes, Bodies, Atoms, Divisible Time, Divisible Space - How Should Explanation Even Be Possible When We First Make Everything Into An Image, Into Our Own Image!

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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We Operate With Nothing

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We Operate With Nothing But Things Which Do Not Exist, With Lines, Planes, Bodies, Atoms, Divisible Time, Divisible Space - How Should Explanation Even Be Possible When We First Make Everything Into An Image, Into Our Own Image!

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When We Cannot Stand Certain People, We Try To Have Suspicions About Them.

You Say A Good Cause Justifies Any War; But I Say A Good War Justifies Any Cause.

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We Have Art In Order Not To Die Of The Truth.

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To Be Natural Means To Dare To Be As Immoral As Nature Is.

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.

I Desire That Your Conjectures Should Not Reach Beyond Your Creative Will. Could You Create A God? Then Do Not Speak To Me Of Any Gods.

As Far As Germany Extends It Ruins Culture.

Men Inadvertently Comport Themselves With Nobility When They Have Grown Accustomed To Wanting Nothing From Others And Always Giving To Them.

O, What Nowadays Does Science Not Conceal! How Much, At Least, It Is Meant To Conceal!

How Do You Expect To Learn To Dance When You Have Not Even Learned To Walk! And Above The Dancer Is Still The Flyer And His Bliss.

The Refinement Of Morality Increases Together With The Refinement Of Fear. Today The Fear Of Disagreeable Feelings In Other People Is Almost The Strongest Of Our Own Disagreeable Feelings.

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

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

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How Did Reason Come Into The World? As Is Fitting, In An Irrational Manner, By Accident. One Will Have To Guess At It As At A Riddle.

Whatever Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger.

Inspirational Tattoo

Woman Understands Children Better Than Man Does, But Man Is More Childlike Than Woman.

His (the Theologian) Basic Instinct Of Self Preservation Forbids Him To Respect Reality At Any Point Or Even To Let It Get A Word In.

No Honey Is Sweeter Than That Of Knowledge.

What Doesn't Kill You Make You Stronger.

Makes You Stronger

I Have Somehow Something Like "influence" ... In The Anti-semitic Correspondence ... My Name Is Mentioned In Almost Every Issue. Zarathustra ... Has Charmed The Anti-semites; There Is A Special Anti-semitic Interpretation Of It That Made Me Laugh Very Much.

Creation Is The Great Redemption From Suffering And All Life's Growing Light. But The Creator Must Be Suffering If Needed And Accept Much Change.

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

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.

By Losing Your Goal, You Have Lost Your Way.

Accomplish Your Goals

What Does Your Conscience Say? — 'you Should Become The Person You Are'.

A Book Is Made Better By Good Readers And Clearer By Good Opponents.

What Is Good? All That Heightens The Feeling Of Power, The Will To Power, Power Itself. What Is Bad? All That Is Born Of Weakness. What Is Happiness? The Feeling That Power Is Growing, That Resistance Is Overcome.

Nothing Ever Succeeds Which Exuberant Spirits Have Not Helped To Produce.

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Unexplained, Obscure Matters Are Regarded As More Important Than Explained, Clear Ones.

Are You Genuine? Or Just An Actor? A Representative? Or What It Is That Is Represented?-in The End, You Might Merely Be Someone Mimicking An Actor ... Second Question Of Conscience.

One Pays Dearly For Being Immortal: One Must Die Many Times During His Life.

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The Most Perfidious Way Of Harming A Cause Consists Of Defending It Deliberately With Faulty Arguments.

He Who Cannot Give Anything Away Cannot Feel Anything Either.

The Heart And Hand Of Those Who Always Mete Out Become Callous From Always Meting Out.

A Strong And Well-constituted Man Digests His Experiences (deeds And Misdeeds All Included) Just As He Digests His Meats, Even When He Has Some Tough Morsels To Swallow.

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When The Gratitude Of Many To One Throws Away All Shame, We Behold Fame.

It Is The Business Of The Very Few To Be Independent; It Is A Privilege Of The Strong.

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We Seldom Break Our Leg So Long As Life Continues A Toilsome Upward Climb. The Danger Comes When We Begin To Take Things Easily And Choose The Convenient Paths.

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The Elimination Of The Will Altogether And The Switching Off Of The Emotions All And Sundry, Is Tantamount To The Elimination Of Reason: Intellectual Castration.

Humility Has The Toughest Hide.

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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.

I Need Solitude, Which Is To Say, Recovery, Return To My Self, The Breath Of A Free, Light, Playful Air.

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Many Other Such Substitutes For War Will Be Discovered, But Perhaps Precisely Thereby It Will Become More And More Obvious That Such A Highly Cultivated And Therefore Necessarily Enfeebled Humanity As That Of Modern Europe Not Only Needs Wars, But The Greatest And Most Terrible Wars, Consequently Occasional Relapses Into Barbarism, Lest, By The Means Of Culture, It Should Lose Its Culture And Its Very Existence.

If You Want Me To Believe In Your Redeemer, You Are Going To Have To Look A Lot More Redeemed.

It Is Within Your Power To See That All You Have Experienced, Trials, Errors, Faults, Deceptions, Passions, Your Love And Your Hope, Shall Be Merged Wholly In Your Aim.

Our Drives Are Reducible To The Will To Power. The Will To Power Is The Ultimate Fact At Which We Arrive.

A Subject For A Great Poet Would Be God's Boredom After The Seventh Day Of Creation.

A Living Being Seeks, Above All, To Discharge Its Strength. Life Is Will To Power.

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

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Reckoned Physiologically, Everything Ugly Weakens And Afflicts Man. It Recalls Decay, Danger, Impotence; He Actually Suffers A Loss Of Energy In Its Presence. The Effect Of The Ugly Can Be Measured With A Dynamometer. Whenever Man Feels In Any Way Depressed, He Senses The Proximity Of Something Ugly. His Feeling Of Power, His Will To Power, His Courage, His Pride - They Decline With The Ugly, They Increase With The Beautiful.

In The Mountains, The Shortest Way Is From Peak To Peak: But For That You Must Have Long Legs

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

The Living Is A Species Of The Dead; And Not A Very Attractive One.

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

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.

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.

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

Sit As Little As Possible. Give No Credence To Any Thought That Was Not Born Outdoors While Moving About Freely.

Morality Is: The Mediocre Are Worth More Than The Exceptions ... I Abhore Christianity With A Deadly Hatred.

I Am Almost Equal To A Shadow.

One Will Seldom Go Wrong If One Attributes Extreme Actions To Vanity, Average Ones To Habit, And Pretty Ones To Fear.

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

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Words Are Acoustical Signs For Concepts; Concepts, However, Are More Or Less Definite Image Signs For Often Recurring And Associated Sensations, For Groups Of Sensations. To Understand One Another, It Is Not Enough That One Use The Same Words; One Also Has To Use The Same Words For The Same Species Of Inner Experiences; In The End One Has To Have One's Experiences In Common.

Their Usual Mistaken Premise Is That They Affirm Some Consensus Among People, At Least Among Tame Peoples, Concerning Certain Moral Principles, And Then Conclude That These Principles Must Be Unconditionally Binding Also For You And Me-or Conversely, They See That Among Different Peoples Moral Valuations Are Necessarily Different And Infer From This That No Morality Is Binding-both Of Which Are Equally Childish.

Moral Absolutism

Let Us Guard Against Saying That There Are Laws In Nature. There Are Merely Necessities: There Is No One Who Commands, No One Whoobeys, No One Who Transgresses. Once You Understand That There Are No Purposes, Then You Also Understand That Nothing Is Accidental: For It Is Only In A World Of Purposes That The Word "accident" Makes Sense.

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

The Deeper Minds Of All Ages Have Had Pity For Animals.

The Higher You Ascend, The Smaller You Appear To The Eye Of Envy. But Most Of All They Hate Those Who Fly.

The Less Men Are Fettered By Tradition, The Greater Becomes The Inward Activity Of Their Motives, And Greater Again In Proportion To Their Outer Restlessness.

It Takes Physical Courage To Indulge In Wickedness. The "good" Are Too Cowardly To Do It.

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

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.

Men Should Learn To Live With The Same Seriousness With Which Children Play.

A Physician Who Treated Me As A Nervous Case For A While Said In The End "no! It Is Not A Matter Of Your Nerves; It Is I Who Am Nervous".

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.

You Look Up When You Wish To Be Exalted. And I Look Down Because I Am Exalted.

Even Today Many Educated People Think That The Victory Of Christianity Over Greek Philosophy Is A Proof Of The Superior Truth Of The Former - Although In This Case It Was Only The Coarser And More Violent That Conquered The More Spiritual And Delicate. So Far As Superior Truth Is Concerned, It Is Enough To Observe That The Awakening Sciences Have Allied Themselves Point By Point With The Philosophy Of Epicurus, But Point By Point Rejected Christianity.

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.

Necessity Is Not An Established Fact, But An Interpretation.

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It Is Only Because Man Believes Himself To Be Free, Not Because He Is Free, That He Experiences Remorse And Pricks Of Conscience.

The Most Welcome Joke To Me Is The One That Takes The Place Of A Heavy, Not Altogether Innocuous Thought, At Once A Cautionary Hint Of The Finger And A Flash Of The Eye.

Full Is The Earth Of The Superfluous; Marred Is Life By The Many-too-many. May They Be Decoyed Out Of This Life By The "life Eternal"!

The Value Of Life Itself Cannot Be Estimated.

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?

Without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake... I Would Only Believe In A God Who Knew How To Dance.

Today As Always, Men Fall Into Two Groups: Slaves And Free Men. Whoever Does Not Have Two-thirds Of His Day For Himself, Is A Slave, Whatever He May Be: A Statesman, A Businessman, An Official, Or A Scholar.

Reality Is Captured In The Categorical Nets Of Language Only At The Expense Of Fatal Distortion.

One Does Not Want To Be Deceived, Under The Supposition That It Is Injurious, Dangerous, Or Fatal To Be Deceived.

There Is Not Enough Religion In The World Even To Destroy Religion.

Be Your Self! All You Are Now Doing, Thinking, Desiring, Is Not You Yourself.

In Russia There Is An Emigration Of Intelligence: émigrés Cross The Frontier In Order To Read And To Write Good Books. But In Doing So They Contribute To Making Their Fatherland, Abandoned By Spirit, Into The Gaping Jaws Of Asia That Would Like To Swallow Our Little Europe.

Convictions Are More Dangerous Enemies Of Truth Than Lies.courageous, Untroubled, Mocking And Violent-that Is What Wisdom Wants Us To Be. Wisdom Is A Woman, And Loves Only A Warrior.

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

What Was Formerly Merely Sickly Now Becomes Indecent : It Is Indecent To Be A Christian Today.

Whoever Has Provoked Men To Rage Against Him Has Always Gained A Party In His Favor, Too.

He Who Despises Himself Esteems Himself As A Self-despiser.

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

It Is Always Consoling To Think Of Suicide: In That Way One Gets Through Many A Bad Night.

Even The Most Beautiful Scenery Is No Longer Assured Of Our Love After We Have Lived In It For Three Months, And Some Distant Coast Attracts Our Avarice: Possessions Are Generally Diminished By Possession.

The Visionary Lies To Himself, The Liar Only To Others.

Truths Are Illlusions Which We Have Forgotten Are Illusions.

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.

Egoism Is The Very Essence Of A Noble Soul.

One Often Contradicts An Opinion When What Is Uncongenial Is Really The Tone In Which It Was Conveyed.

There Is Nothing Very Odd About Lambs Disliking Birds Of Prey, But This Is No Reason For Holding It Against Large Birds Of Prey That They Carry Off Lambs. And When The Lambs Whisper Among Themselves, "these Birds Of Prey Are Evil, And Does This Not Give Us A Right To Say That Whatever Is The Opposite Of A Bird Of Prey Must Be Good," There Is Nothing Intrinsically Wrong With Such An Argument-though The Birds Of Prey Will Look Somewhat Quizzically And Say, We Have Nothing Against These Good Lambs; In Fact, We Love Them; Nothing Tastes Better Than A Tender Lamb.

Men Are Even Lazier Than They Are Timorous, And What They Fear Most Is The Troubles With Which Any Unconditional Honesty And Nudity Would Burden Them.

He Who Knows Not How To Plant His Will In Things At Least Endows Them With Some Meaning: That Is To Say, He Believes That A Will Is Already Present In Them (a Principle Of Faith.)

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

The Poet Presents His Thoughts Festively, On The Carriage Of Rhythm: Usually Because They Could Not Walk.

Some People Throw A Bit Of Their Personality After Their Bad Arguments, As If That Might Straighten Their Paths And Turn Them Into Right And Good Arguments-just As A Man In A Bowling Alley, After He Has Let Go Of The Ball, Still Tries To Direct It With Gestures.

There Is Always Some Madness In Love. But There Is Also Always Some Reason In Madness.

There Is An Innocence In Admiration; It Is Found In Those To Whom It Has Never Yet Occurred That They, Too, Might Be Admired Some Day.

To Produce Music Is Also In A Sense To Produce Children.

Convictions Are Prisons.

It Is Nobler To Declare Oneself Wrong Than To Insist On Being Right --especially When One Is Right.

The Spiritual Activity Of Millennia Is Deposited In Language.

The Degree And Kind Of A Man's Sexuality Reach Up Into The Ultimate Pinnacle Of His Spirit.

I Consist Of Body And Soul - In The Worlds Of A Child. And Why Shouldn't We Speak Like Children? But The Enlightened, The Knowledgealbe Would Say: I Am Body Through And Through, Nothing More; And The Soul Is Just A Word For Something On The Body.

The Destiny Of The Human Race Is To Widen The Gap Separating It From The Lower Races Of Animals. Any Code Of Morality Which Retains Its Permanence And Authority After The Conditions Of Existence Which Gave Rise To It Have Changed, Works Against This Upward Progress Of Man.

We Possess Art Lest We Perish Of The Truth.

One Must Shed The Bad Taste Of Wanting To Agree With Many. "good" Is No Longer Good When One's Neighbor Mouths It. And How Should There Be A "common Good"! The Term Contradicts Itself: Whatever Can Be Common Always Has Little Value. In The End It Must Be As It Is And Always Has Been: Great Things Remain For The Great, Abysses For The Profound, Nuances And Shudders For The Refined, And, In Brief, All That Is Rare For The Rare.

Enduring Habits I Hate.... Yes, At The Very Bottom Of My Soul I Feel Grateful To All My Misery And Bouts Of Sickness And Everything About Me That Is Imperfect, Because This Sort Of Thing Leaves Me With A Hundred Backdoors Through Which I Can Escape From Enduring Habits.

To See Others Suffer Does One Good, To Make Others Suffer Even More: This Is A Hard Saying But An Ancient, Mighty, Human, All-too-human Principle [....] Without Cruelty There Is No Festival.

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