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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

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The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

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We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

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Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

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But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

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