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What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

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People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

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One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

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Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

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Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

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Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

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