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This illustrated edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's complete works offers readers a comprehensive look into the writings of one of the most significant philosophers of the 19th century. It includes a variety of Nietzsche's works, showcasing his philosophical ideas and literary style.
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“Every past is worth condemning.”
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“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.”
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“The strongest have their moments of fatigue.”
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“What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.”
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“Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.”
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“Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.”
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“Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”
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“We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.”
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“The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.”
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“Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.”
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“Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.”
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“Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.”
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“Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.”
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“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.”
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“He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.”
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“In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.”
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“That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.”
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“Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.”
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“Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!”
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“Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.”
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“It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.”
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“In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.”
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“All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.”
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“Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs”
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“In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.”
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“One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.”
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“Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!”
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“The love of power is the demon of mankind.”
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“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”
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“How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.”
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“But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?”
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“Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.”
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“But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.”
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“The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.”
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“The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.”
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“Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.”
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“The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”
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“I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.”
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“If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.”
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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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“A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.”
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“It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.”
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“Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.”
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“That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.”
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“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”
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“But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.”
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“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”
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“Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.”
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“Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.”
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“Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.”
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