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Zarathustra Was The First To Consider The Fight Of Good And Evil The Very Wheel In The Machinery Of Things: The Transposition Of Morality Into The Metaphysical Realm, As A Force, Cause, And End In Itself, Is His Work. [...] Zarathustra Created This Most Calamitous Error, Morality; Consequently, He Must Also Be The First To Recognize It.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Zarathustra Was The First To Consider The Fight Of Good And Evil The Very Wheel In The Machinery Of Things: The Transposition Of Morality Into The Metaphysical Realm, As A Force, Cause, And End In Itself, Is His Work. [...] Zarathustra Created This Most Calamitous Error, Morality; Consequently, He Must Also Be The First To Recognize It.

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Love Ever Your Neighbour As Yourselves - But First Be Such As Love Themselves.

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The Finest And Healthiest Thing About Science Is, As In The Mountains, The Brisk Air Blowing Around In It.--the Spiritually Delicate (such As Artists) Shun And Slander Science Owing To This Air.

Plato Was A Bore.

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You Lovers Of Knowledge! So What Have You Done Out Of Your Love Of Knowledge Up To Now? Have You Already Stolen And Murdered So As To Know How A Thief And A Murderer Feels?

Only In War Are You Holy, And When You Are Robbers And Cruel.

Animals Know Nothing Of Themselves, And They Also Know Nothing Of The World.

Profundity Of Thought Belongs To Youth, Clarity Of Thought To Old Age.

To Learn From Our Enemies Is The Best Pathway To Loving Them: For It Makes Us Grateful To Them.

At The Bottom Of All These Noble Races The Beast Of Prey, The Splendid Blond Beast, Prowling About Avidly In Search Of Spoil And Victory.

The Greatest Events-they Are Not Our Loudest But Our Stillest Hours.

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

Faced With A World Of "modern Ideas" Which Would Like To Banish Everyone Into A Corner And A "specialty," A Philosopher, If There Could Be A Philosopher These Days, Would Be Compelled To Establish The Greatness Of Mankind, The Idea Of "greatness," On The Basis Of His Own Particular Extensive Range And Multiplicity, His Own Totality In The Midst Of Diversity.

Righteousness Exalteth A Nation.

The Really Royal Calling Of The Philosopher (as Expressed By Alcuin The Anglo-saxon): To Correct What Is Wrong, And Strengthen The Right, And Raise What Is Holy.

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

Only Strong Personalities Can Endure History, The Weak Are Extinguished By It.

We Are So Fond Of Being Out Among Nature, Because It Has No Opinions About Us.

"this - Is Now My Way - Where Is Yours"? Thus Did I Answer Those Who Asked Me "the Way". For The Way - It Does Not Exist!

Against Boredom Even Gods Struggle In Vain.

Women Are Constituted In Such A Way That All Truth (regarding Men, Love, Children, Society, The Purpose Of Life) Disgusts Them, And In Such A Way That They Try To Revenge Themselves On Anyone Who Opens Their Eyes.

The Doctrine Of Equality! ... But There Is No More Venomous Poison In Existence: For It Appears To Be Preached By Justice Itself, When It Is Actually The End Of Justice ... "equality To The Equal; Inequality To The Unequal" That Would Be True Justice Speaking: And Its Corollary, "never Make The Unequal Equal".

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Words Are But Symbols For The Relations Of Things To One Another And To Us; Nowhere Do They Touch Upon Absolute Truth.

When A Man Is In Love He Endures More Than At Other Times; He Submits To Everything.

There Are The Terrible Ones Who Carry About In Themselves The Beast Of Prey, And Have No Choice Except Lusts Or Self-laceration. And Even Their Lusts Are Self-laceration.

...one Can Speak With The Utmost Clearness, And Yet Not Be Heard By Anyone.

Every Fact And Every Work Exercises A Fresh Persuasion Over Every Age And Every New Species Of Man. History Always Enunciates New Truths.

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The Slow Arrow Of Beauty. The Noblest Kind Of Beauty Is That Which Does Not Transport Us Suddenly, Which Does Not Make Stormy And Intoxicating Impressions Such A Kind Easily Arouses Disgust But That Which Slowly Filters Into Our Minds.

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Each Word Of Heraclitus Expresses The Pride And The Majesty Of Truth, But Of Truth Grasped In Intuitions Rather Than Attained By The Rope Ladder Of Logic.

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The Disappointed One Speaks. I Searched For Great Human Beings; I Always Found Only The Apes Of Their Ideals.

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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.

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In His Lonely Solitude, The Solitary Man Feeds Upon Himself; In The Thronging Multitude, The Many Feed Upon Him. Now Choose.

I Speak And The Child Plays: Who Can Be More Serious Than We Are?

A Beautiful Woman Seductively Dressed Will Never Catch Cold No Matter How Low-cut Her Gown.

When Virtue Has Slept It Will Arise More Vigorous.

It Is A Prejudice To Think That Morality Is More Favourable To The Development Of Reason Than Immorality.

Among Human Beings There Is No Greater Banality Than Death. Second In Order, Because It Is Possible To Die Without Being Born, Comes Birth, And Next Comes Marriage.

More And More It Seems To Me That The Philosopher, Being Of Necessity A Man Of Tomorrow And The Day After Tomorrow, Has Always Found Himself, And Had To Find Himself, In Contradiction To His Today: His Enemy Was Ever The Ideal Of Today. So Far All These Extraordinary Furtherers Of Men Whom One Calls Philosophers, Though They Themselves Have Rarely Felt Like Friends Of Wisdom But Rather Like Disagreeable Fools And Dangerous Question Marks, Have Found Their Task, Their Hard, Unwanted, Inescapable Task, But Eventually Also The Greatness Of Their Task, In Being The Bad Conscience Of Their Time.

In Constructing Concepts, We Overlook The Fact That No Two Things Are The Same. There Is No Such Thing As The Concept Of A Leaf, Only Billions And Billions Of Leaves.

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Now Know I Well What People Sought Formerly Above All Else When They Sought Teachers Of Virtue. Good Sleep They Sought For Themselves, And Poppy-head Virtues To Promote It! To All Those Be-lauded Sages Of The Academic Chairs, Wisdom Was Sleep Without Dreams: They Knew No Higher Significance Of Life. Even At Present, To Be Sure, There Are Some Like This Preacher Of Virtue, And Not Always So Honorable: But Their Time Is Past. And Not Much Longer Do They Stand: There They Already Lie. Blessed Are Those Drowsy Ones: For They Shall Soon Nod To Sleep.-thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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A Labyrinthine Man Never Seeks The Truth, But Only His Ariadne.

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Wisdom Sets Bounds Even To Knowledge.

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Through Searching Out Origins, One Becomes A Crab. The Historian Looks Backwards, And Finally He Also Believes Backwards.

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Even Cohabitation Has Been Corrupted - By Marriage.

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Our Destiny Rules Over Us, Even When We Are Not Yet Aware Of It; It Is The Future That Makes Laws For Our Today.

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Those Who Know That They Are Profound Strive For Clarity. Those Who Would Like To Seem Profound To The Crowd Strive For Obscurity. For The Crowd Believes That If It Cannot See To The Bottom Of Something It Must Be Profound. It Is So Timid And Dislikes Going Into The Water.

We Should Not Talk About Our Friends: Otherwise We Will Talk Away The Feeling Of Friendship.

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Having Become Conscious Of The Truth He Once Perceived, Man Now Sees Only The Awfulness Or The Absurdity Of Existence, He Now Understands The Symbolic Element In Ophelia's Fate, He Now Recognizes The Wisdom Of The Woodland God, Silenus: It Nauseates Him.

From Which Stars Have We Fallen To Meet Each Other Here?

I Awoke You From Your Sleep Because I Saw That You Were Having A Nightmare. And Now You Are Cross And Say To Me: "what Are We Supposed To Do Now? Everything Is Still Night!" You Ingrates! You Should Go To Sleep Again And Dream Better.

Regarding Life, The Wisest Men Of All Ages Have Judged Alike: It Is Worthless.

He Who Denies His Own Vanity Usually Possesses It In So Brutal A Form That He Instinctively Shuts His Eyes To Avoid The Necessity Of Despising Himself.

Those Who Are Failures From The Start, Downtrodden, Crushed -- It Is They, The Weakest, Who Must Undermine Life Among Men, Who Call Into Question And Poison Most Dangerously Our Trust In Life, In Man, And In Ourselves.

Whoever No Longer Finds Greatness In God No Longer Finds It Anywhere--he Must Either Deny It Or Create It.

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

Higher Than "thou Shalt" Stands "i Will" (the Heroes), And Higher Than "i Will" Stands "i Am" (the Greek Gods).

He Who Fights Too Long Against Dragons Becomes A Dragon Himself; And If You Gaze Too Long Into The Abyss, The Abyss Will Gaze Into You.

There Is Nothing For Which Men Ask To Be Paid Dearer Than For Humiliation.

We Labour At Our Daily Work More Ardently And Thoughtlessly Than Is Necessary To Sustain Our Life Because It Is Even More Necessary Not To Have Leisure To Stop And Think. Haste Is Universal Because Everyone Is In Flight From Himself.

Existence Really Is An Imperfect Tense That Never Becomes A Present.

I Want To Speak To The Despisers Of The Body. I Would Not Have Them Learn And Teach Differently, But Merely Say Farewell To Their Own Bodies-- And Thus Become Silent.

For It Is Only As An Aesthetic Phenomenon That Existence And The World Are Eternally Justified.

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.

I Teach You Beyond Man (superman). Man Is Something That Shall Be Surpassed. What Have You Done To Surpass Him?

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

The Transition From Religion To Scientific Contemplation Is A Violent, Dangerous Leap, Which Is Not To Be Recommended. In Order To Make This Transition, Art Is Far Rather To Be Employed To Relieve The Mind Overburdened With Emotions. Out Of The Illogical Comes Much Good. It Is So Firmly Rooted In The Passions, In Language, In Art, In Religion, And Generally In Everything Which Gives Value To Life. It Is Only The Naive People Who Can Believe That The Nature Of Man Can Be Changed Into A Purely Logical One. We Have Yet To Learn That Others Can Suffer, And This Can Never Be Completely Learned.

It Is So Little True That Martyrs Offer Any Support To The Truth Of A Cause That I Am Inclined To Deny That Any Martyr Has Ever Had Anything To Do With The Truth At All.

Unresolved Dissonances Between The Characters And Dispositions Of The Parents Continue To Reverberate In The Nature Of The Child And Make Up The History Of Its Inner Sufferings.

One Must Know How To Conserve Oneself- The Best Test Of Independence.

Every Living Body Continuously Eliminates Feces, It Rejects What Is Not Serviceable To The Assimilating Organism: What Man Despises, What Arouses His Disgust, What He Calls Evil, Are Excrements.

The State Is The Coldest Of All Cold Monsters.

One Who Is Always Deeply Involved In What He Is Doing Is Above All Embarrassment.

Original Minds Are Not Distinguished By Being The First To See A New Thing, But Instead By Seeing The Old, Familiar Thing That Is Over-looked As Something New.

Art Furnishes Us With Eyes And Hands And Above All The Good Conscience To Be Able To Turn Ourselves Into Such A Phenomenon.

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.

Under Conditions Of Peace The Warlike Man Attacks Himself.

Strideth Over All Mountains, And Laugheth At All Tragedies

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.

As Far As Germany Extends It Ruins Culture.

If You Wish To Understand A Philosopher, Do Not Ask What He Says, But Find Out What He Wants

Although The Most Acute Judges Of The Witches And Even The Witches Themselves, Were Convinced Of The Guilt Of Witchery, The Guilt Nevertheless Was Non-existent. It Is Thus With All Guilt.

The Moment Germany Rises As A Great Power, France Gains A New Importance As A Cultural Power.

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!

I Know Of No Better Life Purpose Than To Perish In Attempting The Great And The Impossible.

Active, Successful Natures Act, Not According To The Maxim, "know Thyself," But As If Prompted By The Commandment: Will A Self, And So Become A Self.

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.

I Love Him Who Scattereth Golden Words In Advance Of His Deeds, And Always Doeth More Than He Promiseth: For He Seeketh His Own Down-going.

By Losing Your Goal, You Have Lost Your Way.

Accomplish Your Goals

He Who Cannot Give Anything Away Cannot Feel Anything Either.

Your Enemy Shall Ye Seek; Your War Shall Ye Wage, And For The Sake Of Your Thoughts! And If Your Thoughts Succumb, Your Uprightness Shall Still Shout Triumph Thereby!

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.

Is It Not Better To Fall Into The Hands Of A Murderer, Than Into The Dreams Of A Lustful Woman?

Only Ideas Won By Walking Have Any Value.

Laughter Means: Taking A Mischievous Delight In Someone Else's Uneasiness, But With A Good Conscience.

A Reader Is Doubly Guilty Of Bad Manners Against An Author When He Praises His Second Book At The Expense Of His First (or Vice Versa) And Then Expects The Author To Be Grateful For What He Has Done.

Time Flies Apace-we Would Fain Believe That Everything Flies Forward With It.

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

Not He Is Great Who Can Alter Matter, But He Who Can Alter My State Of Mind.

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

Mankind Must Work Continually To Produce Individual Great Human Beings - This And Nothing Else Is The Task... For The Question Is This : How Can Your Life, The Individual Life, Retain The Highest Value, The Deepest Significance? Only By Living For The Good Of The Rarest And Most Valuable Specimens.

The Public Easily Confuses Him Who Fishes In Troubled Waters With Him Who Draws Up Water From The Depths.

Dead Are All Gods: Now We Want The Overman To Live.

I Too Have Been In The Underworld, As Was Odysseus, And I Will Often Be There Again; Not Only Sheep Have I Sacrificed So As To Beable To Speak With A Few Dead Souls, But Neither Have I Spared My Own Blood As Well.

They're So Cold, These Scholars! May Lightning Strike Their Food So That Their Mouths Learn How To Eat Fire!

What? A Great Man? I Only Ever See The Ape Of His Own Ideal.

There Are Two Different Types Of People In The World, Those Who Want To Know, And Those Who Want To Believe.

We Are In The Greatest Danger Of Being Run Over When We Have Just Gotten Out Of The Way Of A Carriage.

To Be Moral, Correct, And Virtuous Is To Be Obedient To An Old Established Law And Custom.

Everything Good Is Instinct--and, As A Result, Easy, Necessary, Free.

I Despise Mystics, They Fancy Themselves So Deep, When They Aren't Even Superficial.

Strength Is The Morality Of The Man Who Stands Out From The Rest, And It Is Mine.

In War Personal Revenge Maintains Its Silence.

When One Gives Up Christian Belief One Thereby Deprives Oneself Of The Right To Christian Morality. For The Latter Is Absolutely Not Self-evident: One Must Make This Point Clear Again And Again, In Spite Of English Shallowpates.

With The Unknown, One Is Confronted With Danger, Discomfort, And Care; The First Instinct Is To Abolish These Painful States. First Principle: Any Explanation Is Better Than None. . . . The Causal Instinct Is Thus Conditional Upon, And Excited By, The Feeling Of Fear. The "why?" Shall, If At All Possible, Not Give The Cause For Its Own Sake So Much As For A Particular Kind Of Cause -- A Cause That Is Comforting, Liberating, And Relieving.

What I Understand By "philosopher": A Terrible Explosive In The Presence Of Which Everything Is In Danger.

What Makes Us Heroic?--confronting Simultaneously Our Supreme Suffering And Our Supreme Hope.

Compulsion Precedes Morality, Indeed Morality Itself Is Compulsion For A Time, To Which One Submits For The Avoidance Of Pain.

It Says Nothing Against The Ripeness Of A Spirit That It Has A Few Worms.

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.

A Man Should Not Play The Coward To His Deeds. He Should Not Repudiate Them Once He Has Performed Them. Pangs Of Conscience Are Indecent.

No One Can Draw More Out Of Things, Books Included, Than He Already Knows. A Man Has No Ears For That To Which Experience Has Given Him No Access.

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"!

It Is Our Needs That Interpret The World; Our Drives And Their For And Against. Every Drive Is A Kind Of Lust To Rule; Each One Has Its Perspective That It Would Like To Compel All Other Drives To Accept As A Norm.

A Man Who Is Very Busy Seldom Changes His Opinions.

Style Ought To Prove That One Believes In An Idea; Not Only That One Thinks It But Also Feels It.

You Implanted Your Highest Goal Into The Heart Of Those Passions: Then They Became Your Virtues And Joys.

Whereas The Man Of Action Binds His Life To Reason And Its Concepts So That He Will Not Be Swept Away And Lost, The Scientific Investigator Builds His Hut Right Next To The Tower Of Science So That He Will Be Able To Work On It And To Find Shelter For Himself Beneath Those Bulwarks Which Presently Exist.

There Is No Better Soporific And Sedative Than Skepticism.

Questioning Beliefs

I Have Not Come To Know Atheism As A Result Of Logical Reasoning And Still Less As An Event In My Life: In Me It Is A Matter Of Instinct.

Logical Reasoning

Some People Appear To Be More Meager In Talent Than They Are, Just Because The Tasks They Set Themselves Are Always Too Great.

Giving Style” To One’s Character - A Great And Rare Art! It Is Exercised By Those Who See All The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Their Own Natures And Then Comprehend Them In An Artistic Plan Until Everything Appears As Art And Reason And Even Weakness Delights The Eye.

Though The Favourites Of The Gods Die Young, They Also Live Eternally In The Company Of Gods

Over Immense Periods Of Time The Intellect Produced Nothing But Errors. A Few Of These Proved To Be Useful And Helped To Preserve The Species: Those Who Hit Upon Or Inherited These Had Better Luck In Their Struggle For Themselves And Their Progeny. Such Erroneous Articles Of Faith... Include The Following: That There Are Things, Substances, Bodies; That A Thing Is What It Appears To Be; That Our Will Is Free; That What Is Good For Me Is Also Good In Itself.

I Obviously Do Everything To Be "hard To Understand" Myself

In Praise There Is More Obtrusiveness Than In Blame.

The World Is Beautiful, But Has A Disease Called Man.

Nothing Seems To Me To Be Rarer Today Then Genuine Hypocrisy. I Greatly Suspect That This Plant Finds The Mild Atmosphere Of Our Culture Unendurable. Hypocrisy Has Its Place In The Ages Of Strong Belief: In Which Even When One Is Compelled To Exhibit A Different Belief One Does Not Abandon The Belief One Already Has.

"what Is Good?" Ye Ask. To Be Brave Is Good. Let The Little Girls Say: "to Be Good Is What Is Pretty, And At The Same Time Touching."

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

When Marrying, Ask Yourself This Question: Do You Believe That You Will Be Able To Converse Well With This Person Into Your Old Age? Everything Else In Marriage Is Transitory.

"god", "the Immortality Of The Soul", "salvation", "the Beyond"-even As A Child I Had No Time For Such Notions, I Do Not Waste Any Time Upon Them-maybe I Was Never Childish Enough For That?

To Explore The Whole Sphere Of The Modern Soul, To Have Sat In Every Nook- My Ambition, My Torture, And My Happiness

A Good Writer Possesses Not Only His Own Spirit But Also The Spirit Of His Friends.

The Tree That Would Grow To Heaven Must Send Its Roots To Hell.

The Genius-in Work And In Deed-is Necessarily A Squanderer: The Fact That He Spends Himself Constitutes His Greatness.

If Thinking Is Your Fate, Revere This Fate With Divine Honour And Sacrifice To It The Best, The Most Beloved

Every One Being Allowed To Learn To Read, Ruineth In The Long Run Not Only Writing But Also Thinking.

Love Is Blind; Friendship Closes Its Eyes.

When Anyone Apologizes To Us He Has To Do It Very Expertly: Otherwise We Might Easily Come To See Ourselves As The Guilty Party And Experience Unpleasant Feelings.

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

Conversation With A Friend Will Only Bear Good Fruit Of Knowledge When Both Think Only Of The Matter Under Consideration And Forget That They Are Friends.

Whatever The State Saith Is A Lie; Whatever It Hath Is A Theft: All Is Counterfeit In It, The Gnawing, Sanguinary, Insatiate Monster.

I Have Been Casting Shadows All My Life Without Caring About How Deeply They Stain My Soul.

Democratic Institutions Form A System Of Quarantine For Tyrannical Desires.

Democracies Have

Faith Makes Blessed. Consequently It Lies.

Where Do Your Greatest Dangers Lie?--in Pity.

The Strong Individual Loves The Earth So Much He Lusts For Recurrence. He Can Smile In The Face Of The Most Terrible Thought: Meaningless, Aimless Existence Recurring Eternally. The Second Characteristic Of Such A Man Is That He Has The Strength To Recognize - And To Live With The Recognition - That The World Is Valueless In Itself And That All Values Are Human Ones. He Creates Himself By Fashioning His Own Values; He Has The Pride To Live By The Values He Wills.

When You Stare Into An Abyss For A Long Time, The Abyss Also Stares Into You.

The Golden Fleece Of Self-sufficiency Guards Against Cudgel- Blows But Not Against Pin-pricks.

Character Is Determined More By The Lack Of Certain Experiences Than By Those One Has Had.

All Parties Attempt To Represent Important Things That Have Developed Outside Themselves As Unimportant, And Where They Fail In This They Assail Those Things All The More Bitterly The More Admirable They Are.

When A Hundred Men Stand Together, Each Of Them Loses His Mind And Gets Another One.

He Who Seeks Intelligence Lacks Intelligence.

The Great Advantage In Noble Parentage Is That Enables One To Endure Poverty More Easily.

If Married Couples Did Not Live Together, Happy Marriages Would Be More Frequent.

A Light Has Dawned For Me: I Need Companions, Living Ones, Not Dead Companions And Corpses Which I Carry With Me Wherever I Wish. But I Need Living Companions Who Follow Me Because They Want To Follow Themselves- And Who Want To Go Where I Want To Go.

Whether A Man Hides His Bad Qualities And Vices Or Confesses Them Openly, His Vanity Wants To Gain An Advantage By It In Both Cases: Just Note How Subtly He Distinguishes Between Those He Will Hide His Bad Qualities From And Those He Will Face Honestly And Candidly.

A Joke Is An Epigram On The Death Of A Feeling.

What Europe Owes To The Jews? - Many Things, Good And Bad, And Above All One Thing Of The Nature Both Of The Best And The Worst: The Grand Style In Morality, The Fearfulness And Majesty Of Infinite Demands, Of Infinite Significations, The Whole Romanticism And Sublimity Of Moral Questionableness - And Consequently Just The Most Attractive, Ensnaring, And Exquisite Element In Those Iridescences And Allurements To Life, In The Aftersheen Of Which The Sky Of Our European Culture, Its Evening Sky, Now Glows - Perhaps Glows Out.

There Would Be No Sunshine In Society If The Born Flatterers, I Mean The So-called Amiable People, Did Not Bring It In With Them.

So Far No One Had Had Enough Courage And Intelligence To Reveal Me To My Dear Germans. My Problems Are New, My Psychological Horizon Frighteningly Comprehensive, My Language Bold And Clear; There May Well Be No Books Written In German Which Are Richer In Ideas And More Independent Than Mine.

Every Talent Must Unfold Itself In Fighting.

Free Will Without Fate Is No More Conceivable Than Spirit Without Matter, Good Without Evil.

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