“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.”
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
“I live in my own light, I drink back into myself the flames that break from me”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!”
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
― On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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