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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

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To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

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The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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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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the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

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I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

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Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

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There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

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