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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Happiness, Smile
"The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

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Principles, Charity, Firsts
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

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Trying, Taste, Chance
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.41, Vintage

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

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Values

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

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Ill, Persons
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.53, e-artnow

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

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Clever, Winning, People

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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Ice, Heat, Debate

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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Stars, Wreckage, World
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche”, p.323, Bloomsbury Publishing

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit, Dangerous, Unconditional
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.361, Vintage

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

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Pain, Suffering, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

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Hurt, Kissing, Train
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.273, Modern Library

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

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Learning, Ought, One Thing

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Truth, Revenge

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

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Pleasure

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

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Knowledge, Conscious, Arise

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

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War, Men, Feelings
"Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

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Revenge, Humans, No Revenge
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.51, Algora Publishing

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

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Men, Compassion, Pity

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

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Stupid, Men, Water
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Eye, Moon

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

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Success, Book, Reading

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

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Dog, Stupidity, Stones
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.49, Penguin

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

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Cat, May, Appearance

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

Friedrich Nietzsche
Essentials, Spirit, Crime
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.42, Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fighting, Dragons, Long

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