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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

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People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

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To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

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A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

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Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

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