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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

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Remain true to the earth.

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When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

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Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

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One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

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On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

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