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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

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Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

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

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How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

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Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

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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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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

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