Friedrich Nietzsche

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"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."	Wisdom
"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"	Fear
"And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones."	Virtue
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."	Enemies
"Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature - is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned."	Fear
"Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"	Economics, Dancing
"Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."	Quotations
"Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!"	Fear
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."	Fear
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."	Government, Effort
"I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals."	Fear
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."	Economics, Dancing
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."	Government, Forgiveness
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."	Fear
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."	Fear
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule."	Economics, Sanity
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."	Morality
"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."	Memory
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."	Laughter
"Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared - this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."	Miscellaneous
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