“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.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― 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.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
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