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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.