“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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