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What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

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Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).

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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

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Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

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What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

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A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

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Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

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Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

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The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

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