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That which does not destroy, strengthens.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Resilience, Doe

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

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Opiates, Done, Deeds

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

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Party, Men, Political
Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.133, Read Books Ltd

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Men, Luxury

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Today, Scientist
1887 The Genealogy of Morals, essay 3,'What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?'

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

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Roles, Politician, Comic

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

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Hope, Powerful, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.51, Friederich Nietzsche

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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Wall, Fabulous, Existentialism
"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Knowledge, Bounds
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.3, Courier Corporation

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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Spiritual, Honor, Tragedy

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

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Faith, Lying, Causes
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.54, e-artnow

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

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Noble, Barbarians, Physical Strength

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

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Lying, Common, Exception

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Lazy, Laziness
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughing, Healthy, Details
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.202, Vintage

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Bears, Philosopher

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

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Science, Men, Progress
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

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Truth, Knowledge, Vulgarity
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1979). “Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's”, Humanities Pr

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

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Needs, Reason, Born
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.79, U of Nebraska Press

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

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Children, Maturity, Men

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

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Genius, Talent, Periods
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.127, Courier Corporation

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

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Mean, Compassion, Should Have

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

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Death, Blessing, Odysseus
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.273, Modern Library

The last Christian died on a cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Atheist, Lasts

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

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Resurrection, Graves
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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