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The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

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One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

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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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It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

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The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

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Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

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What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.

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