steven aldridge

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols