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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

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Convictions are prisons.

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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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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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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

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That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

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It is the good war that hallows every cause.

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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

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