Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
"HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? (Location 52)
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The fundamental belief of metaphysicians is THE BELIEF IN ANTITHESES OF VALUES. (Location 59)
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In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS,—that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other. (Location 112)
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There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: (Location 120)
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You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren and uncertain: imagine to yourselves INDIFFERENCE as a power—how COULD you live in accordance with such indifference? (Location 122)
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"living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"—how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves (Location 125)
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you extraordinary stage–players and self–deluders! (Location 128)
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as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical impulse itself, the most spiritual Will to Power, the will to "creation of the world," the will to the causa prima. (Location 134)
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"Sympathy for all"—would be harshness and tyranny for THEE, my good neighbour. (Location 864)
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One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed. (Location 869)
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Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them is not something dreadful also. (Location 870)
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To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one's morality. (Location 875)
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it. (Location 903)
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What a person IS begins to betray itself when his talent decreases,—when he ceases to show what he CAN do. Talent is also an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment. (Location 904)
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