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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Enough, Relatable
Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Might, Moral, Adultery

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Plato, Philosophical
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.294, Vintage

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Moving, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.100, Penguin

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Men, Self

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Saint, Forests
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.37, Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Together

O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doe
"On the Genealogy of Morality". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 3, Aphorism 23, 1887.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sexuality, States, Symptoms
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.302, Penguin

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Everyday Things, Common

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.114, Penguin

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Atheism, Bears

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Individuality, Fundamentals

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Experience, Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Punishment, Support, Finals

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happy, Mother, Children

Yes, life is a woman!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, Life Is, Yeah
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.272, Vintage

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pieces, Given, Has Beens

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Grateful, Vices

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Successful, Self, Maxims

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Childhood, Youth, Ends

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Education, Respect, Teacher

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Desire, Ends

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Birth, Conditions

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Blunders

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