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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

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War, Skills, Overcoming

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

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Cowardice, Alms, Giver
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.51, Penguin

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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Friendship, Hate, Lost Love
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.101, Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

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Pain, Creativity, Hens
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.246, Penguin

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

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God, Father, Evil

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

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Doe, Existence, Persons

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

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Hope, Suffering, Heroic

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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Fear, Drinking, Two
The Twilight of the Idols

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

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Moving, Giving, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.695, Modern Library

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

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Philosophy, Interpretation, Schemes
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.283, Penguin

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

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Inspirational, Philosophy, People

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

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Success, Order, Shadow

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

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Fathers Day, Son, Daddy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.83, Vintage

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

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People, Narcissistic, Too Much
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

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Courage, Flames, Rejuvenation

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

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Stupidity, Trying, Fundamentals

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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Jesus, Son, Sacrifice

Some men are born posthumously.

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Men, Born
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.33, Friederich Nietzsche

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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And Love, Irony, Pathology
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.53, e-artnow

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

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Lying, Self, Knowing Who You Are

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

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Men, Apes

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

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Class, Secret, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.196, Penguin

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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Exercise, Power, Self
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1910). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to power”

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

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Atheist, Men, Goal
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.532, Modern Library

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

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Passion, Intellectual, Laziness

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