Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum."
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"In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for centuries to come, to the solidarity of chains of generations, forward and backward ad infinitum."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"to have to combat oneβs instinctsβthat is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"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."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the βBeyondβ β into nothingness β one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
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