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Whoever Is Related To Me In The Height Of His Aspirations Will Experience Veritable Ecstasies Of Learning; For I Come From Heights That No Bird Ever Reached In Its Flight, I Know Abysses Into Which No Foot Ever Strayed.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Whoever Is Related To Me In The Height Of His Aspirations Will Experience Veritable Ecstasies Of Learning; For I Come From Heights That No Bird Ever Reached In Its Flight, I Know Abysses Into Which No Foot Ever Strayed.

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I Should Not Believe In A God Who Does Not Dance.

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We Are Franker Towards Others Than Towards Ourselves.

I Could Dispense With Nothing When I Created The Superman. His Seed Still Carries All Your Evil And Falsehood, Your Lies And Yourignorance.

Few Serve Truth In Truth Because Only Few Have The Pure Will To Be Just, And Of Those Again Very Few Have The Strength To Be Just.

However Closely People Are Attached To One Another, Their Mutual Horizon Nonetheless Includes All Four Compass Directions, And Nowand Again They Notice It.

The Truthful Man Ends Up Realizing That He Always Lies.

The Man Who Meets With A Failure Attributes This Failure Rather To The Ill Will Of Another Than To Fate.

A Little Health Now And Again Is The Ailing Person's Best Remedy.

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In Solitude There Grows What Anyone Brings Into It, The Inner Beast Too. Therefore Solitude Is Inadvisable To Many.

When Good Friends Praise A Gifted Person He Often Appears To Be Delighted With Them Out Of Politeness And Goodwill, But In Reality He Feels Indifferent.

No Journey Is Too Great, When One Finds What One Seeks.

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That God Became Man Indicates Only This: That Man Should Not Seek His Salvation In Eternity, But Rather Establish His Heaven On Earth.

There Are People Who Want To Make Men's Lives More Difficult For No Other Reason Than The Chance It Provides Them Afterwards To Offer Their Prescription For Alleviating Life; Their Christianity, For Instance.

My Conception Of Freedom. — The Value Of A Thing Sometimes Does Not Lie In That Which One Attains By It, But In What One Pays For It — What It Costs Us. Liberal Institutions Cease To Be Liberal As Soon As They Are Attained: Later On, There Are No Worse And No More Thorough Injurers Of Freedom Than Liberal Institutions.

For The Purpose Of Knowledge We Must Know How To Make Use Of The Inward Current Which Draws Us Towards A Thing, And Also Of The Current Which After A Time Draws Us Away From It.

People Who Live In An Age Of Corruption Are Witty And Slanderous; They Know That There Are Other Kinds Of Murder Than By Dagger Or Assault; They Also Know That Whatever Is Well Said Is Believed.

Once Blasphemy Again God Was The Greatest Blasphemy; But God Died, And Thereupon Those Blasphemers Died Too.

The Sensible Author Writes For No Other Posterity Than His Own--that Is, For His Age--so As To Be Able Even Then To Take Pleasurein Himself.

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