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“To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Zur Genealogie der Moral

Essay 1, Section 13
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)

“Life is, after all, not a product of morality.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

Preface 1, tr. R.J. Hollingdale. The German original has slightly other meaning: "das Leben ist nun einmal nicht von der Moral ausgedacht" ("...and the life was not invented, one day, by morality").
Human, All Too Human (1878)

“Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.”

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Sec. 107
The Gay Science (1882)

“[I am dynamite]I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Ecce homo

"Why I am a Destiny", 1
Ecce Homo (1888)

“Freedom means that the manly instincts which delight in war and victory dominate over other instincts, for example, over those of "pleasure." The human being who has become free — and how much more the spirit who has become free — spits on the contemptible type of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, females, Englishmen, and other democrats. The free man is a warrior. —”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert

Twilight of the Idols (1888)

“Unhappiness. The distinction that lies in being unhappy is so great that when someone says, "But how happy you must be!" we usually protest.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 534
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Quelle: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous), p. 25

“Preparatory Men. — I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honor to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day — the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.”

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The Gay Science (1882)

“Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen

trans. Hollingdale (1983), “Schopenhauer as educator,” p. 158
Untimely Meditations (1876)

“Our own opinions. The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about a matter is usually not our own, but only the customary one, appropriate to our caste, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim near the surface.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 571
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?”

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Variant translation: Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?
Sec. 300
The Gay Science (1882)

“If each us had a different kind of sense perception — if we could only perceive things now as a bird, now as a worm, now as a plant, or if one of us saw a stimulus as red, another as blue, while a third even heard the same stimulus as a sound — then no one would speak of such a regularity of nature, rather, nature would be grasped only as a creation which is subjective in the highest degree. After all, what is a law of nature as such for us? We are not acquainted with it in itself, but only with its effects, which means in its relation to other laws of nature — which, in turn, are known to us only as sums of relations. Therefore all these relations always refer again to others and are thoroughly incomprehensible to us in their essence.”

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On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

“I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.”

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Letter to Mathilde Mayer, July 16, 1878, cited in Karl Jaspers, Nietzsche (Baltimore: 1997), p. 46

“Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen

trans. Hollingdale, “Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.3, p. 139
Untimely Meditations (1876)

“Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!”

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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)

“The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!”

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KSA 9,11 [201]

“How far I was then from all that resignationism!”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik

Oh wie ferne war mir damals gerade dieser ganze Resignationismus!
"Attempt at a Self-criticism", p. 10
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)

“Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

1.189
Human, All Too Human (1878)

“You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,
You give away yourself,
You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;
Great agony always compels you,
The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;
But no one thanks you any longer …”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Dionysian-Dithyrambs

Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.”

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Friedrich Nietzsche buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches

I.59
Human, All Too Human (1878)