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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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

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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

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The Antichrist, Section 7

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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

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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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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

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Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

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There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.

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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

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When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

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