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I love brief habits and consider them an inestimable means for getting to know many things…My nature is designed entirely for brief habits…I always be...more

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Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpose of existence: It now has one additional need—th...more

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Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that c...more

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O my brothers, I dedicate and direct you to a new nobility: you shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future — verily, not to a n...more

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of t...more

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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however lit...more

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It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

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My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head wh...more

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Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

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Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the e...more

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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

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We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparen...more