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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

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That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

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Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

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All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

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Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

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Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

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If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

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