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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

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Action, Should, Command
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

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Love, Return, Ought

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

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Brother, Wall, Giving Love

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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I Love You, True Love, Inspirational Love
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.124, Penguin

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

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Book, Independent, Intelligent
Letter to Carl Fuchs, December 14, 1887.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

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Responsibility, Moments, Draws
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.220, Modern Library

At heart I am a warrior.

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War, Heart, Warrior
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.23, Courier Corporation

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

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Thank You, Grateful, Enemy

All words are prejudices.

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Prejudice

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

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Three, Legs, Four

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

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Prayer, Names, Ninety Nine

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

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Song, Religion, Looks
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.129, Penguin

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

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Death, Men, Heard

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

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Sacrifice, Greatness, Progress
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.51, Courier Corporation

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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Essence, Soul, Noble

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

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Giving, Being Thankful, Receiving
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.205, Penguin

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

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Would Be, Habit, Unendurable
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.129, Courier Corporation

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

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Fall, I Love Him, Player
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.21, e-artnow

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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Kindness, Looks, Malice

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

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Mean, Human Nature, Natural
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

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Believe, Religion, Followers

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

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Wise, Mean, Doe

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

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Men, Sensitive, Contempt

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

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Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

Certitude drives people mad.

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People, Mad, Certitude

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