#nietzschecard

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"Gods delight in making fun: even where sacred actions are concerned, it seems they cannot stop laughing." --Beyond Good and Evil, 294

(ps, if you're new to this tumblr, my "nietzschecard" tag contains--IMO--my most underrated material)

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"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."

--Human, All too Human, 149

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"Whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil."

--BGE, 153

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[from @the-hellsing-organisation's post]

"When power becometh gracious and descendeth into the visible—I call such condescension, beauty."

--Thus Spoke Zarathustra, "The Sublime Ones"

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"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us." --BGE, 116

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"A man's maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play" --Nietzsche, BGE, 94

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"A maxim, the origin of which I withhold from scholarly curiosity, has long been my motto: Increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus*." --Twilight of the Idols

(*The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.)

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"Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises." -- Beyond Good and Evil, 78