Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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Books for general reading always smell badly; the odor of common people hangs about them.

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Is not life a hundred times too short for us — to bore ourselves?

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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

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One does not know—cannot know—the best that is in one.

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It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

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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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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

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