“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call redemption!”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: History, Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Redemption
“The new philosopher can arise only in conjunction with a ruling caste, as its highest spiritualization. Great politics, rule over the earth, are at hand.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Great Politics, Theory and Practice, Theory And Praxis
“Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Objectivity, Truth, Logic Against Logic, Scientific Perspectivism
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of pa…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Art, Complexity, Liberal Arts, Marginalization, Objectivity
“Now something that you formerly loved as a truth or probability strikes you as an error; you shed it and fancy that this represents a victory for your reason. But perhaps this error was as necessary for you then, when you were still a different person —you are always a different person —as are all y…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Criticism, Identity, Truth Shedding, Changes
“One day, and probably soon, we need some recognition of what above all is lacking in our big cities: quiet and wide, expansive places for reflection. Places with long, high-ceilinged cloisters for bad or all too sunny weather where no shouting or noise of carriages can reach and where good manners w…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Architecture, Clearing Farm, Space Design, Designing Quiet
“What good is a book that does not even carry us beyond all books?”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Beyond Books, Books, Childrens Books, Medium = Message
“He is utterly without envy, but there is no merit in that, for he wants to conquer a country that nobody has possessed and scarcely anyone has even seen.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Envy, Paths Unknown
“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Clarity, Defining Quality, Obscurity, Timid, How To Write
“To find everything profound—that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Eye, Profound Seeing, Seeing the Profound, Thought Catalog, Create Difference
“Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any 'land.'”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Freedom, Groundless Ground, Homesick, To The Ocean
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Into The Void, Superficial, Theology
“Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Focus Mantras, Teleology, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“Perspectival seeing is the only kind of seeing there is, perspectival 'knowing' the only kind of 'knowing'; and the more feelings about a matter which we allow to come to expression, the more eyes, different eyes through which we are able to view this same matter, the more complete our 'conception'…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Diversity, Diversity Generators, Eyes, Objectivity, Perspectivism
“To see differently, the desire to see differently for once in this way is no small discipline of the intellect and a preparation for its eventual 'objectivity'— this latter understood not as 'disinterested contemplation' (which is a non-concept and a nonsense), but as the capacity to have all the ar…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Perspectivism, Seeing Seeing
“I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Beyond, Death of God, Grammar, Against Structure
“Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Consciousness, Evolution, Next Steps, Push, Unfinished Mind
“Have we ever complained because we are misunderstood, misjudged, misidentified, slandered, misheard, and not heard? Precisely this is our fate — oh, for a long time yet! It is also our distinction; we should not honor ourselves sufficiently if we wished that it were otherwise. We are misidentified —…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Ethics, Growth
“Gradually we become tired of the old, of what we safely possess, and we stretch out our hands again. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some more distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Awalys Move, Change, Ennui, Possession
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit… He that writes with blood and proverbs does not want to be read, but learned by heart. In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route yo…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Aphorisms, Writing, Write with Blood