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“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

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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 light.”

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“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”

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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”

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“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Plato is boring.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Plato ist langweilig.
What I Owe to the Ancients, 2
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Variant: Plato is boring.

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”

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“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

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“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
Sec. 130
The Gay Science (1882)

“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”

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“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

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“I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Variant: When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

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