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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

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Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

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Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

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Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.

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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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Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

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It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

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I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

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