Background Image

...

Once We Have Found Ourselves, We Must Understand How From Time To Time To Lose--and Then To Find--ourselves Once Again: Assuming,that Is, That We Are Thinkers. For A Thinker It Is A Drawback To Be Bound To A Single Person All The Time.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

Once We Have Found

Friedrich Nietzsche

...

Once We Have Found Ourselves, We Must Understand How From Time To Time To Lose--and Then To Find--ourselves Once Again: Assuming,that Is, That We Are Thinkers. For A Thinker It Is A Drawback To Be Bound To A Single Person All The Time.

Views: 7

Topic

More From Friedrich Nietzsche

There Will Be But Few People Who, When At A Loss For Topics Of Conversation, Will Not Reveal The More Secret Affairs Of Their Friends.

Emerson Is A Person Who Lives Instinctively On Ambrosia - And Leaves Everything Indigestible On His Plate.

Whoever Possesses Abundant Joy Must Be A Good Man: But He Is Probably Not The Cleverest Man, Although He Achieves Exactly What It Is That The Cleverest Man Strives With All His Cleverness To Achieve.

The Most Serious Parody I Have Ever Heard Was This: In The Beginning Was Nonsense, And The Nonsense Was With God, And The Nonsense Was God.

That, However, Is - Mediocrity, Though It Be Called Moderation.

When A Scholar Of The Old Culture Vows No Longer To Have Anything To Do With Men Who Believe In Progress, He Is Right. For The Old Culture Has Its Greatness And Goodness Behind It, And An Historical Education Forces One To Admit That It Can Never Again Be Fresh.

Arrogance On The Part Of The Meritorious Is Even More Offensive To Us Than The Arrogance Of Those Without Merit: For Merit Itself Is Offensive.

Verily, I Do Not Want To Be Like The Ropemakers: They Drag Out Their Threads And Always Walk Backwards.

Knowing Who You Are

The Sensible Author Writes For No Other Posterity Than His Own--that Is, For His Age--so As To Be Able Even Then To Take Pleasurein Himself.

That The World Is A Divine Game And Beyond Good And Evil:min This The Vedanta Philosophy And Heraclitus Are My Predecessors.

The Disappointed One Speaks. I Searched For Great Human Beings; I Always Found Only The Apes Of Their Ideals.

How Can A Man Know Himself? He Is A Thing Dark And Veiled; And If The Hare Has Seven Skins, Man Can Slough Off Seventy Times Seven And Still Not Be Able To Say: "this Is Really You, This Is No Longer Outer Shell.

A Book Full Of Brilliance Imparts Some Of It Even To Its Opponents.

One Has Been A Poor Spectator Of Life If One Has Not Witnessed The Hand - That Kills From Mercy.

There Is No More Dangerous Error Than That Of Mistaking The Consequence For The Cause.

It Is However A Disgrace To Pray! Not For All, But For You, And Me, And Whoever Has His A Conscience.

Whatever A Theologian Regards As True Must Be False: There You Have Almost A Criterion Of Truth.

There Are Two Things A Real Man Likes - Danger And Play; And He Likes Woman Because She Is The Most Dangerous Of Play Things.

A Soul Which Knows That It Is Loved, But Does Not Itself Love, Betrays Its Sediment: Its Dregs Come Up.

I Do Not Know What The Spirit Of A Philosopher Could More Wish To Be Than A Good Dancer. For The Dance Is His Ideal, Also His Fine Art, Finally Also The Only Kind Of Piety He Knows, His 'divine Service.'

All Idealism Is Falsehood In The Face Of Necessity.

When Gods Die, They Always Die Many Sorts Of Death.

He Who Recites Dramatic Works Makes Discoveries About His Own Character.

To Predict The Behavior Of Ordinary People In Advance, You Only Have To Assume That They Will Always Try To Escape A Disagreeable Situation With The Smallest Possible Expenditure Of Intelligence.

Just As A Waterfall Grows Slower And More Lightly Suspended As It Plunges Down, So The Great Man Of Action Tends To Act With Greater Calmness Than His Tempestuous Desires Prior To The Deed Would Lead One To Expect.

I Cook Every Chance In My Pot. And Only When It Is Cooked Through Do I Welcome It As My Food.

The Doer Is Merely A Fiction Added To The Deed ? The Deed Is Everything.

An Artist Chooses His Subjects: That Is The Way He Praises.

Great Intellects Are Skeptical.

Where Does One Not Find That Bland Degeneration Which Beer Produces In The Spirit!

To Live As I Incline, Or Not To Live At All: So Do I Wish; So Wisheth Also The Holiest. But Alas! How Have I Still - Inclination? Have I-still A Goal? A Haven Towards Which My Sail Is Set?a Good Wind? Ah, He Only Who Knoweth Whither He Saileth, Knoweth What Wind Is Good, And A Fair Wind For Him.what Still Remaineth To Me? A Heart Weary And Flippant; And Unstable Will; Fluttering Wings; A Broken Backbone.this Seeking For My Home: O Zarathustra, Dost Thou Know That This Seeking Hath Been My Home-sickening; It Eateth Me Up.

What Is The Seal Of Liberation? Not To Be Ashamed In Front Of Oneself.

Why Couldn't The World That Concerns Us- Be A Fiction? And If Somebody Asked, 'but To Be A Fiction There Surely Belongs An Author?'- Couldn't One Answer Simply: 'why? Doesn't This "belongs" Perhaps Belong To The Fiction, Too?'

He Who Has Attained The Freedom Of Reason To Any Extent Cannot, For A Long Time, Regard Himself Otherwise Than As A Wanderer On The Face Of The Earth - And Not Even As A Traveler Towards A Final Goal, For There Is No Such Thing. But He Certainly Wants To Observe And Keep His Eyes Open To Whatever Actually Happens In The World; Therefore He Cannot Attach His Heart Too Firmly To Anything Individual; He Must Have In Himself Something Wandering That Takes Pleasure In Change And Transitoriness.

Not To Him Who Is Offensive To Us Are We Most Unfair, But To Him Who Doth Not Concern Us At All.

The Coward Does Not Know What It Means To Be Alone: An Enemy Is Always Standing Behind His Chair.

When One Thinks Profusely And Cleverly, Not Only His Face But His Body Too Takes On A Clever Appearance.

There Is More Wisdom In Your Body Than In Your Deepest Philosophy.

This Crown To Crown The Laughing Man, This Rose-wreath Crown: I Myself Have Set This Crown Upon My Head, I Myself Have Pronounced My Laughter Holy.

A Thought Comes When It Will, Not When I Will.

The Beautiful Exists Just As Little As The True. In Every Case It Is A Question Of The Conditions Of Preservation Of A Certain Type Of Man: Thus The Herd-man Will Experience The Value Feeling Of The True In Different Things Than Will The Overman.

The Strongest And Most Evil Spirits Have To Date Advanced Mankind The Most: They Always Rekindled The Sleeping Passions - All Orderly Arranged Society Lulls The Passions To Sleep; They Always Reawakened The Sense Of Comparison, Of Contradiction, Of Delight In The New, The Adventurous, The Untried; They Compelled Men To Set Opinion Against Opinion, Ideal Plan Against Ideal Plan.

Pity Is The Most Agreeable Feeling Among Those Who Have Little Pride And No Prospects Of Great Conquests.

There Is No More Dreary Or More Repulsive Creature Than The Man Who Has Evaded His Genius.

Is Not Wounded Vanity The Mother Of All Tragedies?

The Noble Soul Reveres Itself

The Surest Sign That Two People No Longer Speak The Same Language Is That Both Say Ironic Things To One Another But That Neither Senses The Irony.

I Love Him Who Is Ashamed When The Dice Fall In His Favour, And Who Then Asketh: "am I A Dishonest Player?" - For He Is Willing To Succumb.

No Victor Believes In Chance.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

The Best Way To Give Assistance To Those Who Are Deeply Embarrassed And To Calm Them Down Is To Praise Them Decisively.

A Physician Who Treated Me As A Nervous Case For A While Said In The End "no! It Is Not A Matter Of Your Nerves; It Is I Who Am Nervous".

Did You Ever Say Yes To A Pleasure? Oh My Friends, Then You Also Said Yes To All Pain. All Things Are Linked, Entwined, In Love With One Another.

Many A Peacock Hides His Peacock Tail From All Eyes--and Calls It His Pride.

Whoever Wants To Set A Good Example Must Add A Grain Of Foolishness To His Virtue: Then Others Can Imitate And Yet At The Same Time Surpass The One They Imitate-which Human Beings Love To Do.

Good Deeds Shun The Light As Anxiously As Evil Deeds: The Latter Fear That Disclosure Will Bring On Pain (as Punishment), While The Former Fear That Disclosure Will Take Away Pleasure (that Pure Pleasure, That Pleasure Per Se, Which Immediately Ceases Once The Vanity's Satisfaction Is Added).

Thinking Has To Be Learned In The Way Dancing Has To Be Learned.

In The Dark, Time Feels Different Than When It Is Light.

Convictions Are More Dangerous Enemies Of Truth Than Lies.courageous, Untroubled, Mocking And Violent-that Is What Wisdom Wants Us To Be. Wisdom Is A Woman, And Loves Only A Warrior.

O My Brothers, Am I Then Cruel? But I Say: That Which Is Falling Should Also Be Pushed!

One Has To Pay Dearly For Immortality; One Has To Die Several Times While One Is Still Alive.

We Criticize A Thinker More Acutely When He Advances A Proposition That Is Disagreeable To Us; And Yet It Would Be More Reasonableto Do So When His Proposition Is Agreeable To Us.

Danger Alone Acquaints Us With Our Own Resources, Our Virtues, Our Armor And Weapons, Our Spirit, And Forces Us To Be Strong.

What The Father Kept Silent The Son Speaks Out.

Every Talent Must Unfold Itself In Fighting.

In Laughter All That Is Evil Comes Together, But Is Pronounced Holy And Absolved By Its Own Bliss.

"ego," Sayest Thou, And Art Proud Of That Word. But The Greater Thing - In Which Thou Art Unwilling To Believe - Is Thy Body With Its Big Sagacity; It Saith Not "ego," But Doeth It.

The Beating Of Drums, Which Delights Young Writers Who Serve A Party, Sounds To Him Who Does Not Belong To The Party Line Like A Rattling Of Chains, And Excites Sympathy Rather Than Admiration.

You Say That I Should Be Your Teacher! See To It That I Am Your Pinion And Not Your Brake.

It Is Not When Truth Is Dirty, But When It Is Shallow, That The Lover Of Knowledge Is Reluctant To Step Into Its Waters.

God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. Yet His Shadow Still Looms. How Shall We Comfort Ourselves, The Murderers Of All Murderers?

I Will Believe In The Redeemer When The Christians Look A Little More Redeemed.

The Consequence Is That Every Man Comes To Know Himself Solely In Terms Of His Power For Defence And Attack.

Folk Music Is The Original Melody Of Man; It Is The Musical Mirror Of The World.

Man Is Not Equally Moral At All Hours, This Is Well Known. If His Morality Is Judged To Be The Capability For Great Self-sacrificing Resolutions And Self-denial (which, When Continuous And Grown Habitual, Are Called Holiness)

We Feign Pity When We Want To Demonstrate Our Ascendancy Over Feelings Of Hostility: But Usually In Vain. Whenever We Notice This,there Is An Accompanying Surge In Those Hostile Sensations.

Sometimes All You Need To Do To Win Clever People Over To A Principle Is To Present It In The Form Of A Shocking Paradox.

You Highest Men Whom I Have Ever Seen! This Is My Suspicion About You And My Secret Laughter: I Guess That You Would Call My Superman--a Devil!

Our Writing Equipment Takes Part In Forming Our Thoughts.

It Is Regrettable That A Dostoyevsky Did Not Live Near This Most Interesting Of All Decadents (jesus Christ) - I Mean Someone Who Would Have Known How To Sense The Very Stirring Charm Of Such A Mixture Of The Sublime, The Sickly, And The Childlike.

Deception, Flattering, Lying, Deluding, Talking Behind The Back, Putting Up A False Front, Living In Borrowed Splendor, Wearing A Mask, Hiding Behind Convention, Playing A Role For Others And For Oneself -- In Short, A Continuous Fluttering Around The Solitary Flame Of Vanity -- Is So Much The Rule And The Law Among Men That There Is Almost Nothing Which Is Less Comprehensible Than How An Honest And Pure Drive For Truth Could Have Arisen Among Them.

I Was In Darkness, But I Took Three Steps And Found Myself In Paradise. The First Step Was A Good Thought, The Second, A Good Word; And The Third, A Good Deed.

Let Man Fear Woman When She Loves: Then She Makes Any Sacrifice, And Everything Else Seems Without Value To Her

What? A Great Man? I Only Ever See The Ape Of His Own Ideal.

Assuming That We Have Trained Our Imagination To Denounce The Past, We Will Not Suffer Much From Unfulfilled Wishes.

Two Great European Narcotics, Alcohol And Christianity.

I Love Him Who Maketh His Virtue His Inclination And Destiny: Thus, For The Sake Of His Virtue, He Is Willing To Live On, Or Live No More.

When We Talk In Company We Lose Our Unique Tone Of Voice, And This Leads Us To Make Statements Which In No Way Correspond To Our Real Thoughts.

We Come To Recognize That Playfulness, As A Philosophical Stance, Can Be Very Serious Indeed; And Moreover, That It Possesses An Unfailing Capacity To Arouse Ridicule And Hostility In Those Among Us Who Crave Certainty, Reverence, And Restraint.

Yet For All That, There Is Nothing In Me Of A Founder Of A Religion--religions Are Affairs Of The Rabble; I Find It Necessary To Wash My Hands After I Have Come Into Contact With Religious People.

When Asses Are Needed.- You Will Never Get The Crowd To Cry Hosanna Until You Ride Into Town On An Ass.

Those Who Are Devoid Of Purpose Will Make The Void Their Purpose.

I Overcame Myself, The Sufferer; I Carried My Own Ashes To The Mountains; I Invented A Brighter Flame For Myself.

The Less Men Are Fettered By Tradition, The Greater Becomes The Inward Activity Of Their Motives, And Greater Again In Proportion To Their Outer Restlessness.

For Out Of Fear And Need Each Religion Is Born, Creeping Into Existence On The Byways Or Reason.

Science ... Has No Consideration For Ultimate Purposes, Any More Than Nature Has, But Just As The Latter Occasionally Achieves Things Of The Greatest Suitableness Without Intending To Do So, So Also True Science, As The Imitator Of Nature In Ideas, Will Occasionally And In Many Ways Further The Usefulness And Welfare Of Man,-but Also Without Intending To Do So.

Interest In Education Will Acquire Great Strength Only From The Moment When Belief In A God And His Care Is Renounced, Just As The Art Of Healing Could Only Flourish When The Belief In Miracle Cures Ceased.

Where Do Your Greatest Dangers Lie?--in Pity.

A Good Writer Possesses Not Only His Own Spirit But Also The Spirit Of His Friends.

Whereas The Man Of Action Binds His Life To Reason And Its Concepts So That He Will Not Be Swept Away And Lost, The Scientific Investigator Builds His Hut Right Next To The Tower Of Science So That He Will Be Able To Work On It And To Find Shelter For Himself Beneath Those Bulwarks Which Presently Exist.

Rash Actions Are Seldom Committed In Isolation. With The First Rash Action We Always Do Too Much. So We Usually Go On To Commit Asecond One--and Then We Do Too Little.

Energy Wasted On Negative Ends.

The Aphorism, The Apothegm, In Which I Am The First Among The Germans To Be A Master, Are The Forms Of “eternity”; It Is My Ambition To Say In Ten Sentences What Everyone Else Says In A Book — What Everyone Else Does Not Say In A Book.

Man Alone Resists The Direction Of Gravitation: He Constantly Wants To Fall--upwards.

Whatever Is Gold Does Not Glitter. A Gentle Radiance Belongs To The Noblest Metal.

We Are Unknown To Ourselves, We Men Of Knowledge - And With Good Reason. We Have Never Sought Ourselves - How Could It Happen That We Should Ever Find Ourselves? It Has Rightly Been Said: "where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also"; Our Treasure Is Where The Beehives Of Our Knowledge Are.

Remorse.-- Never Yield To Remorse, But At Once Tell Yourself: Remorse Would Simply Mean Adding To The First Act Of Stupidity A Second.

Among The Wealthy, Generosity Is Often Merely A Kind Of Shyness.

Enjoy Life. This Is Not A Dress Rehearsal.

The Future Influences The Present Just As Much As The Past.

The Problem Of Culture Is Seldom Grasped Correctly. The Goal Of A Culture Is Not The Greatest Possible Happiness Of A People, Noris It The Unhindered Development Of All Their Talents; Instead, Culture Shows Itself In The Correct Proportion Of These Developments. Its Aim Points Beyond Earthly Happiness: The Production Of Great Works Is The Aim Of Culture.

A Man Should Not Play The Coward To His Deeds. He Should Not Repudiate Them Once He Has Performed Them. Pangs Of Conscience Are Indecent.

We Must Repay Goodness And Wickedness: But Why Exactly To The Person Who Has Done Us A Good Or A Wicked Turn?

Acknowledge Your Will And Speak To Us All, "this Alone Is What I Will To Be!" Hang Your Own Penal Code Up Above You: We Want To Be Its Enforcers!

How Much Beer Is In German Intelligence?

Most Thinkers Write Badly, Because They Communicate Not Only Their Thoughts, But Also The Thinking Of Them.

No Journey Is Too Great, When One Finds What One Seeks.

Coming To America

Light For Some Time To Come Will Have To Be Called Darkness.

Every Extension Of Knowledge Arises From Making The Conscious The Unconscious.

Whoever Turns Away From Us Might Not Offend Us In Doing So Perhaps, But He Certainly Offends Our Followers.

There Are No Facts, Only Interpretations.

Wherever Progress Is To Ensue, Deviating Natures Are Of Greatest Importance.

The So-called Paradoxes Of An Author, To Which A Reader Takes Exception, Often Exist Not In The Author's Book At All, But Rather In The Reader's Head.

Man Must Become Better And More Evil.

We Are, Indeed, Not Among The Least Contented. You, However, If Your Belief Makes You Blessed Then Appear To Be Blessed! Your Faces Have Always Been More Injurious To Your Belief Than Our Objections Have! If These Glad Tidings Of Your Bible Were Written On Your Faces, You Would Not Need To Insist So Obstinately On The Authority Of That Book ... As Things Are, However, All Your Apologies For Christianity Have Their Roots In Your Lack Of Christianity; With Your Defense Plea You Inscribe Your Own Bill Of Indictment.

It Is Not When It Is Dangerous To Tell The Truth That Its Advocates Are Hardest To Find, But When It Is Boring.

Such A Man As Instinctively Feeds On Pure Ambrosia And Leaves Alone The Indigestible In Things.

I Teach You The Overman. Man Is Something Which Shall Be Surpassed.

Every Achievement, Every Step Forward In Knowledge, Is The Consequence Of Courage, Of Toughness Towards Oneself, Of Sincerity To Oneself

There Are Ages In Which The Rational Man And The Intuitive Man Stand Side By Side, The One In Fear Of Intuition, The Other With Scorn For Abstraction. The Latter Is Just As Irrational As The Former Is Inartistic.

When We Are Tired, We Are Attacked By Ideas We Conquered Long Ago.

Faith Is The Path Of Least Resistance.

Path Of Least Resistance

Every Habit Makes Our Hand More Witty And Our Wit Less Handy.

Philosophical Systems Are Wholly True For Their Founders Only.

The Reasons And Purposes For Habits Are Always Lies That Are Added Only After Some People Begin To Attack These Habits And To Ask For Reasons And Purposes. At This Point The Conservatives Of All Ages Are Thoroughly Dishonest: They Add Lies.

Is Man One Of God's Blunders? Or Is God One Of Man's Blunders?

A Certain Sense Of Cruelty Towards Oneself And Others Is Christian; Hatred Of Those Who Think Differently; The Will To Persecute. Mortal Hostility Against The Masters Of The Earth, Against The 'noble', That Is Also Christian; Hatred Of Mind, Of Pride, Courage, Freedom, Libertinage Of Mind, Is Christian; Hatred Of The Senses, Of Joy In General, Is Christian.

He Who Attains His Ideal, Precisely Thereby Surpasses It.

Love Is A State In Which A Man Sees Things Most Decidedly As They Are Not.

People Who Live In An Age Of Corruption Are Witty And Slanderous; They Know That There Are Other Kinds Of Murder Than By Dagger Or Assault; They Also Know That Whatever Is Well Said Is Believed.

At Every Step One Has To Wrestle For Truth; One Has To Surrender For It Almost Everything To Which The Heart, To Which Our Love, Our Trust In Life, Cling Otherwise. That Requires Greatness Of Soul: The Service Of Truth Is The Hardest Service. What Does It Mean, After All, To Have Integrity In Matters Of The Spirit? That One Is Severe Against One's Heart...that One Makes Of Every Yes And No A Matter Of Conscience.

If You Are Too Weak To Give Yourselves Your Own Law, Then A Tyrant Shall Lay His Yoke Upon You And Say: "obey! Clench Your Teeth And Obey!" And All Good And Evil Shall Be Drowned In Obedience To Him.

Go Through The Towns And Ask Yourselves Whether These People Should Reproduce! Let Them Go To Their Whores!

Our Body Is Simply A Social Structure Made Of Many Souls.

When There Is A Choice About It, A Great Sacrifice Is Preferable To A Small Sacrifice, Because We Compensate Ourselves For A Greatone With Self-admiration, Which Is Not Possible With A Small One.

Evolution Does Not Make Happiness Its Goal; It Aims Simply At Evolution And Nothing Else.

We Fear Our Neighbor's Hostile Mood Because We Are Afraid That This Mood Will Lead Him To Penetrate Our Secrets.

Without The Perpetual Counterfeiting Of The Universe By Number, Man Could Not Continue To Live

The Enormous Expectation Having To Do With Sexual Love And The Shame Involved In This Expectation Degrades All A Woman's Perspectives From The Start.

You Are Treading The Path To Your Greatness: No One Shall Follow You Here! Your Passage Has Effaced The Path Behind You, And Above That Path Stands Written: Impossibility.

Sometimes It Just Takes Stronger Eyeglasses To Cure Those Who Are In Love--and Someone With The Ability To Imagine A Face Or A Figure Twenty Years Older Might Perhaps Pass Through Life Quite Undisturbed.

Resistance - That Is The Distinction Of The Slave. Let Your Distinction Be Obedience. Let Your Commanding Itself Be Obeying!

He Who Denies Himself Much In Great Matters Will Readily Indulge Himself In Small Things.

Man Makes God In His Own Image.

All Names Of Good And Evil Are Images; They Do Not Speak Out, They Only Hint. He Is A Fool Who Seeks Knowledge From Them.

Thinking Evil Is Making Evil.

One Should Part From Life As Odysseus Parted From Nausicaa-blessing It Rather Than In Love With It.

For Some Natures, Changing Their Opinions Is Just As Much A Requirement Of Cleanliness As Changing Their Clothes: For Others, However, It Is Merely A Requirement Of Vanity.

A Noble Soul Is Not The One That Can Manage The Highest Flights But The One That Rises Very Little And Falls Very Little But Always Dwells In A Free, Resplendent Atmosphere And Altitude.

In The Whole Of The New Testament There Is Not One Joke, That Fact Alone Would Invalidate Any Book.

The Followers Of A Great Man Often Put Their Eyes Out, So That They May Be The Better Able To Sing His Praise.

Objectivity And Justice Have Nothing To Do With One Another.

For Nothing Is More Democratic Than Logic; It Is No Respecter Of Persons And Makes No Distinction Between Crooked And Straight Noses.

We Count The Courtesies Accorded Us By Unpopular People As Offenses.

In Our Own Presence, We All Pretend To Be Simpler Than We Are: Thus We Take A Break From Our Fellow Human Beings.

The Ascetic Makes A Necessity Of Virtue.

The Love Of Truth Has Its Reward In Heaven And Even On Earth.

Socrates ... Is The First Philosopher Of Life [lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking Serves Life, While Among All Previous Philosophers Life Had Served Thought And Knowledge. ... Thus Socratic Philosophy Is Absolutely Practical: It Is Hostile To All Knowledge Unconnected To Ethical Implications.

The Christian Church Has Left Nothing Untouched By Its Depravity; It Has Turned Every Value Into Worthlessness, And Every Truth Into A Lie

I Consist Of Body And Soul - In The Worlds Of A Child. And Why Shouldn't We Speak Like Children? But The Enlightened, The Knowledgealbe Would Say: I Am Body Through And Through, Nothing More; And The Soul Is Just A Word For Something On The Body.

The States In Which We Infuse A Transfiguration And A Fullness Into Things And Poetize About Them Until They Reflect Back Our Fullness And Joy In Life... Three Elements Principally: Sexuality, Intoxication And Cruelty All Belonging To The Oldest Festal Joys.

Around The Hero Everything Turns Into A Tragedy, Around The Demigod, A Satyr-play, And Around God--what? Perhaps A "world"?

A Bad Conscience Is Easier To Cope With Than A Bad Reputation.

However Modest One May Be In One's Demand For Intellectual Cleanliness, One Cannot Help Feeling, When Coming Into Contact With The New Testament, A Kind Of Inexpressible Discomfiture: For The Unchecked Impudence With Which The Least Qualified Want To Raise Their Voice On The Greatest Problems, And Even Claim To Be Judges Of Such Things, Surpasses All Measure. The Shameless Levity With Which The Most Intractable Problems (life, World, God, Purpose Of Life) Are Spoken Of, As If They Were Not Problems At All But Simply Things That These Little Bigots Knew!

"god", "the Immortality Of The Soul", "salvation", "the Beyond"-even As A Child I Had No Time For Such Notions, I Do Not Waste Any Time Upon Them-maybe I Was Never Childish Enough For That?

A Belief, However Necessary It May Be For The Preservation Of A Species, Has Nothing To Do With Truth. The Falseness Of A Judgment Is Not For Us Necessarily An Objection To A Judgment. The Question Is To What Extent It Is Life-promoting, Life-preserving, Species Preserving, Perhaps Even Species Cultivating. To Recognize Untruth As A Condition Of Life--that Certainly Means Resisting Accustomed Value Feelings In A Dangerous Way; And A Philosophy That Risks This Would By That Token Alone Place Itself Beyond Good And Evil.

Truth Is Only An Illusion We Have Forgotten Is An Illusion.

Are You One Who Looks On? Or Lends A Hand? - Or Who Looks Away, Sidles Off?...third Question For The Conscience.

If You Believed More In Life You Would Fling Yourself Less To The Moment.

One Is Most Dishonest To One's God: He Is Not Allowed To Sin.

The Higher Man Is Distinguished From The Lower By His Fearlessness And His Readiness To Challenge Misfortune.

It Was A Subtle Refinement Of God To Learn Greek When He Wished To Write A Book – And That He Did Not Learn It Better.

Willing Emancipateth: That Is The True Doctrine Of Will And Emancipation - So Teacheth You Zarathustra. No Longer Willing, And No Longer Valuing, And No Longer Creating! Ah, That That Great Debility May Ever Be Far From Me! And Also In Discerning Do I Feel Only My Will's Procreating And Evolving Delight.

I Love All Who Are Like Heavy Drops Falling One By One Out Of The Dark Cloud That Lowereth Over Man: They Herald The Coming Of The Lightning, And Succumb As Heralds.

But This People Has Deliberately Made Itself Stupid, For Nearly A Millennium: Nowhere Have The Two Great European Narcotics, Alcohol And Christianity, Been Abused More Dissolutely.

It Is An End With Priests And Gods, If Man Becomes Scientific. Moral: Science Is The Thing Forbidden In Itself - It Alone Is Forbidden. Science Is The First Sin, The Germ Of All Sin, Original Sin. This Alones Is Mortality: Thou Shalt Not Know.

A Man Unconsciously Imagines That Where He Is Strong, Where He Feels Most Thoroughly Alive, The Element Of His Freedom Must Lie.

Profundity Of Thought Belongs To Youth, Clarity Of Thought To Old Age.

And If A Friend Does You Wrong, Then Say: "i Forgive You What You Have Done To Me; That You Have Done It To Yourself, However--how Could I Forgive That!

Nobody Thanks A Witty Man For Politeness When He Puts Himself On A Par With A Society In Which It Would Not Be Polite To Show One's Wit.

Freedom Of Opinion Is Like Health; Both Are Individual, And No Good General Conception Can Be Set Up Of Either Of Them.

The Ordinary Man Is As Courageous And Invulnerable As A Hero When He Does Not Recognize Any Danger, When He Has No Eyes To See It.conversely, The Hero's Only Vulnerable Spot Is On His Back, And So Exactly Where He Has No Eyes.

You Want To Make Him Interested In You? Then Pretend To Be Embarrassed In His Presence-

A Friend Should Be A Master At Guessing And Keeping Still: You Must Not Want To See Everything.

Mathematics Is Merely The Means To A General And Ultimate Knowledge Of Man.

Shared Joys Make A Friend, Not Shared Sufferings.

I Desire That Your Conjectures Should Not Reach Beyond Your Creative Will. Could You Create A God? Then Do Not Speak To Me Of Any Gods.

On The Tree, Future, We Build Our Nest; And In Our Solitude Eagles Shall Bring Us Nourishment In Their Beaks!

They Muddy The Water, To Make It Seem Deep.

The Flame Is Not As Bright To Itself As It Is To Those It Illuminates: So Too The Sage.

Trending Author

Frederick Soddy

Alfred Korzybski

Frederick William Robertson

Category