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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

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Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

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

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All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

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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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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

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Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

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