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In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
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