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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

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Christianity is Platonism for the people.

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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

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On every parable you ride to every truth.

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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

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When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

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After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

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