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You are going to women? Do not forget the whip!
Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)
All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
Merchant and pirate...for a long period are one and the same person...Even to-day mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement on piratical morality.
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all names of values: weapons shall they be, and sounding signs, that life must again and again surpass itself!
There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.
If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
Don't throw away the hero in your soul. Hold your highest hopes holy.
Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885)
State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all..
The Gay Science (1882)
Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become one himself. And when you stare for a long time into an abyss, the abyss stares back into you.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken, big and tall.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Women want to become independent. To this end they are beginning to enlighten men about "women as such." This is one of the worst aspects of progress in the general uglification of Europe.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)
It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful then the truths of little men.
"Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live" — on that great noon, let this be our last will.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891)
This is age of the masses, who prostrate themselves before everything built on a massive scale.
Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
The Gay Science (1882)
But even the superfluous ones make much ado about their death, and even the hollowest nut wanteth to be cracked.