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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

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The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

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Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

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And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

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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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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

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Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

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The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

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Those who create are hard of heart.

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