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If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Will
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lie
Lies
Lying
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God
Dance
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time
Will
World
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time
God
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Power
Pain
Will
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope
Man
Reality
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance
Day
First
Flying
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Values
Future
Now
Obligation
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Extreme
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth
Lies
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
First
Will
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom
Earth
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Soul
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God
Church
Circumstances
Grave
Want