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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

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Gratitude, Men, Two

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

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Believe, Feels, Noisy

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

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Clever, People, Embarrassed
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.272, Modern Library

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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God, Hero, Play

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

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Beautiful, Eye, Black
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

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Lying, Reality, Mirrors
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

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Pain, Self, Suffering
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.139, Courier Corporation

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".

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Lying, Army, Order

That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

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Hypocrite, Vanity, Law
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.120, Courier Corporation

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

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Betrayal, Party, Followers

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

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Sake, Bears, Moments

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

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People, Evil, Judging
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.

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Creative, Different, Noble
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.472, Modern Library

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

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Life Is, Thoughts On Life, Highest
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

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Wind, Abuse, Trying
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

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Real, Science, Law

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

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Thinking, People, Guilt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

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Pregnancy, Riddle, Solutions
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.57, Oxford University Press

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

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Men, Self, Sensitive
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.218, Courier Corporation

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.

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Warrior, Firsts, Dear
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

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Heart, Religion, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

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Christian, Lying, Church
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

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People, Arrogance, Important

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

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Christian, Philosophy, Errors
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, People, Religion

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