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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

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

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And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself ...more

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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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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.

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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' ...more

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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.