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Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

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Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

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Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

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Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

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Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

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I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

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A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

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Convictions are prisons.

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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

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...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

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Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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