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Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

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Christian, Drug, Treasure
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

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World, Enough
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.78, Courier Corporation

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

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Fate, Errors, Music Is

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

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Men, Giving, Nobility

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

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Philosophy, Philosophical, People
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

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Wisdom, Science, Feelings

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

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Vices, Christianity, Pity

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

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Pregnancy, Creativity, Birth

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

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Air, Doubt, Church

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

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Evil, Enemy, Shame
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.79, Penguin

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

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Mistake, Responsibility, Errors
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Errors, Taste

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

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Wise, Dream, Believe

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

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Rude, Receiving, Agents
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Law, Good Man
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Dynamite
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.782, Modern Library

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Fall, Hands
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.78, Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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Suicide, Suicidal, Night
'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' [Beyond Good and Evil] (1886) ch. 4, no. 157

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

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Men, Detours, Six

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

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Beautiful, Stupid, Climbing

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

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Teacher, Done, Loyal

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

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Knowledge, Honey
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

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Evil, Groups, Madness

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

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Demand, Firsts, Facts
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.46, Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrows, Words Of Wisdom, Mind
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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