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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

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Convictions are prisons.

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.

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You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

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There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

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Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

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

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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

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