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What Is The Greatest Thing Ye Can Experience? It Is The Hour Of Great Contempt. The Hour In Which Even Your Happiness Becometh Loathsome Unto You, And So Also Your Reason And Virtue.

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What Is The Greatest Thing Ye Can Experience? It Is The Hour Of Great Contempt. The Hour In Which Even Your Happiness Becometh Loathsome Unto You, And So Also Your Reason And Virtue.

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

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

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A Woman May Very Well Form A Friendship With A Man, But For This To Endure, It Must Be Assisted By A Little Physical Antipathy.

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

Just Look At The Faces Of The Great Christians! They Are The Faces Of Great Haters.

After Coming Into Contact With A Religious Man I Always Feel I Must Wash My Hands.

By Losing Your Goal, You Have Lost Your Way.

Accomplish Your Goals

Talking Much About Oneself May Be A Way Of Hiding Oneself.

Follow In The Footsteps Of Your Fathers' Virtue! How Could You Hope To Climb High Unless Your Fathers' Will Climbs With You?

It Has Therewith Come To Be Recognized That The History Of Moral Valuations Is At The Same Time The History Of An Error, The Error Of Responsibility, Which Is Based Upon The Error Of The Freedom Of Will.

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

The Scaffolding Must Be Removed Once The House Is Built.

In Order To Be Able Thus To Misjudge, And Thus To Grant Left-handed Veneration To Our Classics, People Must Have Ceased To Know Them. This, Generally Speaking, Is Precisely What Has Happened. For, Otherwise, One Ought To Know That There Is Only One Way Of Honoring Them, And That Is To Continue Seeking With The Same Spirit And With The Same Courage, And Not To Weary Of The Search.

We Can Destroy Only As Creators

Mathematics Is Merely The Means To A General And Ultimate Knowledge Of Man.

The Growth Of Wisdom May Be Gauged Exactly By The Diminution Of Ill-temper.

When We Have A Great Goal We Are Superior Even To Justice, Not Merely To Our Deeds And Our Judges.

All Idealism Is Falsehood In The Face Of Necessity.

Whether We Immoralists Do Any Harm To Virtue?-just As Little As Anarchists Do To Princes. It Is Only Because They Have Been Shot At That They Once Again Sit Securely On Their Thrones. Moral: We Must Shoot At Morals.

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He Who Knows Himself To Be Profound Endeavors To Be Clear; He Who Would Like To Appear Profound To The Crowd Endeavors To Be Obscure.

The Criminal Is Quite Frequently Not Equal To His Deed: He Belittles And Slanders It.

That Is An Artist As I Would Have An Artist Be, Modest In His Needs: He Really Wants Only Two Things, His Bread And His Art--panemet Circen.

Everything Becomes And Recurs Eternally - Escape Is Impossible!

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.

Whoever, At Any Time, Has Undertaken To Build A New Heaven Has Found The Strength For It In His Own Hell.

Possessions Are Usually Diminished By Possession.

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

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.

The Author Must Keep His Mouth Shut When His Work Starts To Speak.

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It Is Not Conflict Of Opinions That Has Made History So Violent But Conflict Of Belief In Opinions, That Is To Say Conflict Of Convictions.

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