Essay 3, Aphorism 10
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Variante: Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Generally attributed to Nietzsche, this is a quotation from Curtis Cate's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Biography (2003) and is the author's interpretation of Nietzsche's Aphorism 221 (Beyond Good and Evil)
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“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Crépuscule des idoles

Sect. 38
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 116
The Gay Science (1882)

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Human, All Too Human

I.332 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA139&dq=:%22Arrogance+on+the+part+of+the+meritorious+is+even+more+offensive+to+us%22&hl=en&ei=7HFTTKGJOcmhnQfSrsXJAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%3A%22Arrogance%20on%20the%20part%20of%20the%20meritorious%20is%20even%20more%20offensive%20to%20us%22&f=false <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Sec. 158
The Gay Science (1882)
Contexte: To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche livre Par-delà le bien et le mal

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”