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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Sacrifice, Thinking

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

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Lying, Criminals, Facts
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

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Christianity, Executioners
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

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Men, Break A Leg, Discovery

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

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Dream, Long, Soul

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

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Hero, Soul, Hope And Love
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.101, Penguin

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Discipline, Suffering
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.156, Courier Corporation

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

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Atheism, Godliness

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

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Men, Hands, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

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Nature, Men, Insanity

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

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Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

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Health, Men, Goodness
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

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Too Late, Stranger, Right Time

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

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Spiritual, Language, Activity

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

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Coins, Forgotten, Illusion

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Ariadne

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Self, Instinct
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.211, Modern Library

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Clever, Knowing
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

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Childhood, Stupidity, Prejudice

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

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Beautiful, War, Humanity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.205, Courier Corporation

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

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Two, Facts, Leafs

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

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Memories, Young

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

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Forgotten, Illusion, Truth Is

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Dies

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude, Lying, Heart
Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.199, Cambridge University Press

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