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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Grief, Eye
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

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Independent, Yoke, Ruling

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

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Mother, Home, Names

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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Plato, Men, Degrees
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Vanity, Giants, Vulnerable
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.34, 谷月社

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

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Philosophy, Philosophical, School

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

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Sheep, Often Is, Blood

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

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Stars, Men, Giving
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.23, e-artnow

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Two, Needs

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

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Tragedy, Crumbs, Masters
"The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 54), 1872.

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Thinking, Medicine

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Desire, One Love

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Tree, Paradise
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Distance, Cities, Order
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Giving Up, Fall
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.58, Friedrich Nietzsche

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

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Taste, Christianity, Reason

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, World, Philosopher

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Lying, Reality

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

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Cold, Praise, Well Dressed
Friedrich Nietzsche, (2013). “The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV”, p.171, Read Books Ltd

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Success, Thinking, Achievement

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Men, People
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Evil, Soil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Attitude, Suffering, Doe

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance, War, Men

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Jesus, Mean, Interesting

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