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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cause

Man

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

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Men

Songs

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

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Women

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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Fanatics

Mankind

Fear is the mother of morality.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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Art

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

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Existence

Present

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

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Arrogance

Merit

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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Thoughts

Walking

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

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Truth

Lie