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I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

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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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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

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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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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

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If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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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.

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