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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

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Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

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The English are a nation of consummate cant.

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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

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The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

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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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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

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I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

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The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

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Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

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Plato was a bore.

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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

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