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141 " Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche
142 " philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness. "
143 " A thinking man never be a party man. "
144 " We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
145 " The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man’s disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Thus Spoke Zarathustra
146 " Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil
147 " A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly. "
148 " Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up. "
149 " Love's cruel notion. - Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killingthe object of that love, so that he may be removed once and for all fromthe wicked game of change: for love dreads change more than it doesdestruction. "
150 " The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error. "
151 " It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Will to Power
152 " Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ
153 " In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. "
154 " Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , Man Alone with Himself
155 " Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. "
156 " There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol. "
157 " Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. "
158 " What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. "
159 " Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not of the artist: one of the most surprising facts in the history of all the arts. It was the demand of throughly unmusical hearers that before everything else the words must be understood, so that according to them a rebirth of music is to be expected only when some mode of singing has been discovered in which textword lords it over counterpoint like master over servant: For the words, it is argued, are as much nobler than the accompanying harmonic system as the soul is nobler than the body. "
― Friedrich Nietzsche , The Birth of Tragedy
160 " Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says ‘All for me’ is a horror to us. "