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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Science, Hands

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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Cheerful, Vices, Politeness
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.179, Friedrich Nietzsche

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

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Religious, Hands, People
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.782, Modern Library

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

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Atheism, Christianity, Morbid
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Common (2004). “Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist”, p.119, Courier Corporation

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

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Sight, Experience, Generations

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

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Beautiful, Eye, Giving

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

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May, Superiors, Familiarity
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

Energy wasted on negative ends.

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Energy, Negative, Ends
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.708, Modern Library

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

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Party, Silence, Way
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

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

It is the good war that hallows every cause.

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War, Causes, Good War
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.42, Oxford University Press

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

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Weakness, Steps, Belief

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

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Children, Thinking, Play

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, Men, Religion
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1964). “Complete Works: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation”

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Believe, Men
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.86, U of Nebraska Press

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

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Men, Tree, Sound
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.264, Vintage

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

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Eye, Reality, Idols
Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.3, Oxford University Press

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, War, Silence

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

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Thoughtful, Thinking, Language

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

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Faith, Lying, Blessed
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

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Distance, Blessed, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

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Father, Upset Stomach, Joy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.195, Penguin

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

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Strong, Stupid, Character
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Vanity, Morality, Hardest
"Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Aphorism 143, 1886.

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Enemy, Desire, Demand
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

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