Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

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But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

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You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

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He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself."

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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

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You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

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And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

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'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

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The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

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Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

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Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

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Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
I need hands outstretched to receive it.

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The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

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You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

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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.

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God is a thought that makes crooked all that is straight.

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