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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

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Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

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I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

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Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

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It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

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Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

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Success has always been a great liar.

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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

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Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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