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A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

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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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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

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i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

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Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

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A married philosopher is a comic character.

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Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

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The Gay Science, section 108

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There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

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