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“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”
― Frederick Nietzsche

“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One is punished most for one’s virtues.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Always look on the bright side of the abyss”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a Why can endure any How.”
― Frederick Nietzsche

“If someone rejoices while burning at the stake it is not because he has
triumphed over his pain, but rather over not feeling any pain when he
expected to.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Alas, the magic of these battles is that whoever looks at them must also fight them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss.

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeks he his own down-going.

I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeks he his own down-going.

I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I love him who reserves no share of spirit for himself, but wants to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walks he as spirit over the bridge.

I love him who makes his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who desires not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always bestows, and desires not to keep for himself.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb.

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goes he willingly over the bridge.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the SUPERMAN.--”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Where your fear is,
there is your task.”
― C.G. Jung

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”
― Plato