All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning l...
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Music heals all forms of misery
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Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the othe...
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Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned o...
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invent...
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play
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[Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become p...
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
