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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but wit...more

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Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other ...more

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, st...more

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When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

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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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We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

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And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

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Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies ...more

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword...more

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.