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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

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Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

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The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

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Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

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How much beer is in German intelligence?

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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

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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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The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

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It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

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And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

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What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

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