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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.

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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

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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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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

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Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

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All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

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Sleep is no mean art.

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In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

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