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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! (Friedrich Nietzsche)
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. View quote
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He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon. View quote
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I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. View quote
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If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion. View quote
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. View quote
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. View quote
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. View quote
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? (Friedrich Nietzsche)
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. View quote
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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? View quote
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Nobody talks more passionately of his rights than he who, in the depths of his soul, is doubtful about them. View quote
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed. View quote
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. View quote
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He who does not lie does not know what truth is. View quote
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. View quote
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again. View quote
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Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. View quote
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The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure. View quote
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Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. View quote
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? View quote
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. View quote
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