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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

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Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

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But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

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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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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

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Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

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Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

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The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

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