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THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Giving, Touching
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

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Marriage, Couple, Together
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.175, Courier Corporation

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

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Believe, Men, Guilt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.41, Courier Corporation

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

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Pain, Suffering, Hardship

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

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Race, Misunderstood, Victory
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.476, Modern Library

A married philosopher is a comic character.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Philosopher, Married

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, World, Finance
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear, Vanity, Average
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sin
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.269, Modern Library

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

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Heart, Vanity, Opposites

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

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Eye, Pride, Tails
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

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Giving, Doe, Asks
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.17, Jester House Publishing

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Invention, Breasts, Pleasant
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Play, Coward
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Health, Eye, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Witty, Men, Thanks
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

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Women, Shallow, Bottom

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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Gratitude, Appreciation, Soul

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

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Art, Dresses, Worn
"Human, All Too Human".

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

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Women, Forget You, Visiting

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Discovery, People

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

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Thrones, Littles, Moral

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom, Pride, Littles

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Animal, Metaphor
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heaven, Cry, Sin
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.8, Booklassic

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