This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever surpass itself."


Friedrich Nietzsche

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I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.
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The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us...
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Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall w...
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Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were de...
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And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou n...
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Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
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This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.
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You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid f...
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I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I s...
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Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
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And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him...
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
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. . . a woman . . . told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. "But I just keep coming ba...
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Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
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To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
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This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.
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There'll come a time when all of us must leave here, then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me he...
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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
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Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
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We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
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All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
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This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
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Only sick music makes money today.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
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Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
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The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
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Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
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He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
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Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
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What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
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