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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

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Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

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All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

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The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

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Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

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The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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The bite of conscience is indecent.

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