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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessing, Men, Play
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.254, U of Nebraska Press

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Names, Matter, Today

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Hands, Callous
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.307, Vintage

Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Lying, Men

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Humility, Humanity

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Lying, Independent
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.364, Courier Corporation

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, History, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.140, Courier Corporation

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Inward, Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.211, Courier Corporation

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace, Fall, Humility
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Triumph, Sound, Slayer

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry, Want, Exaggeration

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope, Passion, Intellectual
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Roots, Growth, Weak
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed, Feet, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.184, Friedrich Nietzsche

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Friedrich Nietzsche
Independent, Self, Over You

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Order, Goal
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness, Genius, Deeds
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Unique, Fit
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Humanity, Doubt

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, Men, Effort
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.94, Modern Library

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Medicine, Victory, Cures

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

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

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Men, World

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance, Merit, Offensive
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Simple, Shopping, Luxury
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.370, Cambridge University Press

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