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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called present or culture, but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotional, Culture, Illness

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Feelings, Together
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.53, Penguin

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Littles, Pity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.65, Courier Corporation

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Events, Hours
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.417, Modern Library

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hate, Enemy, Contempt You

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Shadow, Equal
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.481, Simon and Schuster

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Doe, Strive

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Men, Intimate

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Order, Return

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Men, Light
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.182, Vintage

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Creative, Healthy, Unity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.130, Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Purpose, Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, Goal, Humanity

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Christianity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.21, Friedrich Nietzsche

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Numbers, Perpetual

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Funny Life, Feelings, Jokes
Human, All Too Human vol. 2, pt. 1, sec. 202 (1878) (translation by R. J. Hollingdale)

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Dance, Laughter

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing, Blood, Spirit

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Hands, Shoes
Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.48, Penguin UK

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Gold, Doe, Radiance

All truths are bloody truths to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Bloody

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

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Believe, Principles, Plant
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Him, Past, Willing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.21, e-artnow

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Believe, Ego
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit, Vain, Ends
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

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