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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

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Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

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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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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

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Man must become better and more evil.

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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

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Man is the cruelest animal.

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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

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Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

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Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

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Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

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