Prash

“NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to
mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even
if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot
of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing
generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment,
that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly
stuck to its work through the course of a long life.

preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“as the "people of the centre" in every
sense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more unknown, more incalculable, more surprising, and even more terrifying than other peoples are to themselves:--they escape DEFINITION, and are thereby alone the despair of the French.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-”
― Friedrich Nietzsche