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A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

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Courage, Heart, Needs

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

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Solitude, May, Speak

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

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Life, Success, Lying

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

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Funeral, Littles, Woods
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.70, Friedrich Nietzsche

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

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

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

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Independent, Eye, Doe

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

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Art, Believe, Book

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

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Love, Today, Sin

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

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Swimming, Land, Circles
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

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Attitude, Order, Things In Life
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

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Truth, Boring, Dangerous

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

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Art, Real, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

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Speak, Foolish, Young
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.87, Jester House Publishing

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

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War, Ideas, Age

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

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Knowing Who You Are, Snakes, Skins
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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Guessing, Want, Should
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Integrity, Existentialism, Mistrust
The Twilight of the Idols "Maxims and Arrows" sec. 26 (1888) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

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Believe, World, Causes

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

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

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

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Fall, Ideas, Drunk
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.197, Vintage

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

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Heart, Envy, Hatred
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.50, e-artnow

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

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Spirit, Moral, Puritan
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.119, Friedrich Nietzsche

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

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Groups, Use, Common
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.406, Modern Library

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

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Powerful, Heart, Sacrifice
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.45, Courier Corporation

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Shadow, Comfort, Murderer

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