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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous toy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
They are not clean enough for me, either: they all disturb their waters so that they may seem deep.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Everything in woman is a riddle, and everything in woman hath one solution—it is called pregnancy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.
The Will to Power (1888)
The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
The Antichrist (1895)
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Untimely Meditations (1876)
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Man is for woman a means; the end is always the child.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
Have you grasped nothing of the reason why I am in the world?
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.
The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.