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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.

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All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

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Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

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Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

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