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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

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Nihilism, World, Dissatisfaction

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

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Prudent, Youth, Periods
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

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Class, People, Giving

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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Truth, Knowledge, Moral

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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Desire, Annoying, Disposition

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

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Children, Women, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.113, Penguin

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

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Lonely, Loneliness, Men

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

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Children, Soul, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

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Mother, Women, Despise

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

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Mean, Warrior, Acceptance
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

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

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

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World, Ugly, Faces

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

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Littles, Poverty, Possessed

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

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Brother, Pain, Fall

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

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Life, Happiness, Success

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

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Art, Ugly, Truth Is

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

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Writing, Tablets, Harvest
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.89, Penguin

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

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Hope, Fighting, Winning

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

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Lying, Hero, Pregnancy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.137, Friedrich Nietzsche

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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Life, Power, Masters

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

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Truth, Knowledge, Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

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Determination, Men, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

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Soul, Affinity, Solidarity

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

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Love You, Love Is, Self Love
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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

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Taken, Sacrifice, Tyrants

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