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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

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Pride, Feelings, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.87, Vintage

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

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Philosophical, Artist, Ideas

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, Dance, God

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

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Friendship, Balance, Sides

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

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Profound, Crowds, Obscure

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

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Generosity, Kind, Shyness

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

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War, Holiness, Holy

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

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Christian, Atheist, Thinking
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

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Children, Flower, Butterfly

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

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Family, Mother, Children

There is always some madness in love.

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Love, Crush, Sexy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Healing, Miracle
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.131, Courier Corporation

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Philosophical, Wrath
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.422, Modern Library

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

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Artist, Past, Men

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Ink, Born

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

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Believe, Because I Can, Deceived
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

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Intellectual, Emotion, Reason

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

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Clever, Thinking, Body

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Evil, Done
"The Portable Nietzsche".

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Mean, Doe

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

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Pain, Taken, Pride

Art is the great stimulus to life.

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Art, Stimulus, Art Is
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.325, Penguin

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

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Blessed, Fall, Sleepy
"The Portable Nietzsche".

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

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Hope, Father, Heritage

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

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Father, War, Good Things
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.91, Friedrich Nietzsche

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