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“Exploitation” does not belong to a corrupted or imperfect, primitive society: it belongs to the essence of being alive as a fundamental organic function; it is a result of genuine will to power, which is just the will of life.

"Lovely? She was beauteous, she was sinfully fascinating. Eyes like raw silk, arms of amber! Just one glance from her was as seductive as a kiss; and when she called me, her voice darted like a wine-ray right into my soul's phosphor“

The chasm between knowing something and being able to do it is perhaps even greater and more uncanny than it is generally thought to be: people who can do things in the grand style, the creators, might need to be ignorant.

when the man in men is no longer wanted and cultivated; what is more difficult to understand is that in the process – women degenerate.

So far, men have been treating women like birds that have lost their way and flown down to them from some height or another: like something finer, more vulnerable, wilder, stranger, sweeter, more soulful, – but also like something that has to be locked up to keep it from flying away.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Beyond-Good-and-Evil (p. 191). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Suppose if truth is a woman, what then ?

To the rabble,wisdom seems like a kind of escape, a device or trick for pulling yourself out of the game when things get rough. But the real philosopher(and isn’t this how it seems to us)lives “unphilosophically,” “unwisely,” in a manner which is above all not clever,and feels the weight and duty of a hundred experiments and temptations of life– he constantly puts himself at risk & plays the rough game...

The wrong never lies in unequal rights; it lies in the claim to equal rights.

The most intellectual men, as the strongest find their happiness where others meet with their ruin: in the labyrinth, in hardness towards themselves and others, in endeavour; their delight is self-mastery: with them asceticism becomes a second nature, a need, an instinct They regard a difficult task as their privilege; to play with burdens which crush their fellows is to them a recreation.

Every inch of truth has been conquered only after a struggle, almost everything to which our heart, our love and our trust in life cleaves, has had to be sacrificed for it Greatness of soul is necessary for this: the service of truth is the hardest of all services. A man is severe towards his own heart, that he scorns "beautiful feelings," and that he makes a matter of conscience out of every Yea or Nay

the "inner world" of the religious man is ridiculously like the "inner world" of over-irritable and exhausted people; the "highest" states which Christianity holds up to mankind as the value of values, are epileptic in character,—

Freidrich Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols & Antichrist (p. 173). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Man must not cast his glance upon the outer world, he must turn it inwards into himself; he must not as a learner look cleverly and cautiously into things; he must not see at all: he must suffer. ... And he must suffer, so that he may be in need of the priest every minute.—

The priest knows only one great danger, and that is science,—the healthy concept of cause and effect But, on the whole, science flourishes onlyunder happy conditions,—a man must have time, he must also have superfluous mental energy in order to "pursue knowledge" ... "Consequently man must be made unhappy,"—this has been the argument of priest for ages

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment,—but many other things ceased as well!
Woman was God's second mistake.—
"Woman in her innermost nature is a serpent, Heva"—every priest knows this: "all evil came into this world through woman,"—every priest knows this too.

"Consequently science also comes from woman."

Insignificant little abortions of bigots and liars began to lay sole claim to the concepts "God," "Truth," "Light," "Spirit," "Love," "Wisdom," "Life," as if these things were, so to speak, synonyms of themselves, in order to fence themselves off from "the world"; little ultra-Jews, ripe for every kind of madhouse, twisted values round in order to suit themselves.

What was the only part of Christianity which was subsequently borrowed by Muhamed? St Paul's invention, his expedient for priestly tyranny and to the formation of herds: the belief in immortality—that is to say, the doctrine of the "Last Judgment." ...

Friedrich Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols & Antichrist (p. 158). (Function). Kindle Edition.

Truth to tell, the word “ Christianity “ is a misunderstanding:
There was never more than one Christian and he died on the cross.

Whoever might seek for signs pointing to the guiding fingers of an ironical deity behind the great comedy of existence, would find no small argument in the huge note of interrogation that is called Christianity.

With a little terminological laxity, Jesus might be called a "free spirit"—he cares not a jot for anything that is established: the word killeth, everything fixed killtth. The idea, experience, "life" as he alone knows it, is, according to him, opposed to every kind of word, formula, law, faith and dogma. He speaks only of the innermost things: "life" or "truth," or "light.

It is greatly to be deplored that no Dostoiewsky lived in the neighbourhood of this most interesting decadent,—I mean someone who would have known how to feel the poignant charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the morbid, and the childlike.