“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
“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
“The popular medical formulation of morality that goes back to Ariston of Chios, 'virtue is the health of the soul,' would have to be changed to become useful, at least to read: 'your virtue is the health of your soul.' For there is no health as such, and all attempts to define a thing that way have…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.comTagged: Equality, Health, Medicine, The Great Reversal
“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