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Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Soul, Humanity
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Style, Suits

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nihilism, Form, Extremes

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Judging, Guilt, Existentialism
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, Animal, Perfect
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.173, Courier Corporation

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

Friedrich Nietzsche
Cutting, Promise, Pieces
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.718, Vintage

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Errors, Littles

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Should Have, Enemy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Joy, Want, Eternity

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Earth, Forests

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Years, Shadow
The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 108 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Nerval 2; Nietzsche 12

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Mean, Enjoy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.76, Friedrich Nietzsche

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride, Intuition, Rope
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.69, Regnery Publishing

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Men, Becoming
"Nietzschean Narratives". Book by Gary Shapiro (p. 50), 1989.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, Reflection, Law
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.64, Cambridge University Press

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Religion, Answers
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Lakes, Religion

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Eye, Hands
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.164, Vintage

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Together, Lasts, Contradicting
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Feelings, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.526, Modern Library

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Air, Regal, Certainty

Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, Heaven, Triumph

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Thinking, Firsts
"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, G. Whitlock trans., June 5, 2006.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Coward, Littles

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Respect, Divinity, Shame
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical writings”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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