The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself is nothing but a scaffolding and toy for the most audacious feats of the liberated intellect.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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There was only one Christian and he died on the cross.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Man has an invincible inclination to allow himself to be deceived and is, as it were, enchanted with happiness when the rhapsodist tells him epic fables as if they were true, or when the actor in the theater acts more royally than any real king.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are no facts, only interpretations.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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