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Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

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Hate, Mind, Firsts

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

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Happiness, Women, Lying

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

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Teaching, Thinking, Educator
Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.250, Read Books Ltd

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

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Memories, Men, Originality

Convictions are prisons.

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Prison, Conviction
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.385, Penguin

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

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Way, Gone, Strive

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

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Philosophy, Philosopher, Habit
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.23, Courier Corporation

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Talent, Enough, Permission

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

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Women, Games, Hatred
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.275, Modern Library

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

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Wise, Men, Vision

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

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Women, Believe, Heart

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

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Bridges, Crosses, Streams
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

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Eagles, Tree, Solitude
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.133, Penguin

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

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Health, Littles, Remedy

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

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Opportunity, Justice, Judgement

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

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Book, Opponents, Spirit

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

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Hurt, Pain, Different
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.392, Cambridge University Press

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

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Suffering, Principles, Doe

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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War, Causes, Good War
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

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Way, Causes, Annoying

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

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Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

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Bird, Nests, Should
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.137, Penguin

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

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Hero, Tree, Doe

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

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Liars, Men, Indignant
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.22, e-artnow

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Steps, Cleanliness, Relation
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.218, Vintage

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