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Men were considered free only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

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Lying, Independent, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

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

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

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Lying, Passing Away, Causes

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

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Heaven, Hell, Idealist

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

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Peace, War, Men
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

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Peace, Women, Cat

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

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Spokes, My Thoughts, Behinds
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.168, Penguin

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

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Sympathy, Wise, Emotional

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

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Truth, Philosophy, Medicine
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

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Atheism, Nausea, Christianity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.23, Modern Library

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

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Strong, Mind, Stones

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

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Pain, People, Suffering
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

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Noses, Logic, Distinction
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

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Separation, Force, Again And Again

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

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Heartfelt, Essentials, Firsts

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

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Life, Past, Greatness
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

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Evil, Age, Golden

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

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Recovery, Men, Giving Love

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

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Art, Giving, Existence

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

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Philosophy, Lying, Believe
"Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

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Average, Soul, Together
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

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Time, Born, My Time
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.35, Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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Truth, Existentialism, Shallow
"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 126, 1882.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

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Artist, Average, Remarkable

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

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Pain, Failure, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.360, Friedrich Nietzsche

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