We grow like trees We shed our old bark, our skins every spring. We become younger, fuller of future, taller and stronger Our roots delve ever more powerfully into the deep whilst our leaves and branches ever more lovingly embrace the heavens and its light We are not easy to

There are two different types of people in the world Those who want to know, and those who want to believe LTR #Nietzsche

When a person says to you : "In worldly matters I'm a child" You should realise that this person is trying to avoid being held accountable - and also that you have got that person's number - and it's Number One Bleak House LVII #Dickens

Whenever I survey the activities of human beings, I always find each and every one of them working on the same basic task : supporting the preservation of the human species This is not done from a feeling of love for the species - but simply because there is nothing older,

A Philosophy has no value if it does not lead to Action UTM Hist #Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake TWI 1.33 #Nietzsche

What preserves the human species? Our modern age has a much celebrated moral theory - which is in fact thoroughly wrong It claims that what is called Good preserves the species while what is called Evil harms it However, the truth is that for the preservation of the species,

The air of my writings is the air of high places, a Strong air You must be made for it - or you will catch a cold The ice is close by, the solitude tremendous - but how freely you can breathe, how peacefully everything lies in the light! ECH 3 #Nietzsche

To be able to laugh at yourself - as you would when laughing from the whole truth It seems our laughter still has some way to go - before we can truly grasp the comedy of existence TGS 1 #Nietzsche

A common false conclusion : When someone is being true and honest towards us - we suppose that they are in possession of the truth H2H 1.53 #Nietzsche

I have gradually come to realize what every great philosophy so far has actually been - A kind of involuntary and unconscious autobiography by its author BGE #Nietzsche

Every living thing wants to grow, to climb ever higher It climbs on steps : difference, dispute, struggle - Good and Evil, Rich and Poor... Life is struggle - because any living thing must Grow TSZ #Nietzsche

The dearest ambition of the lowest kind of people : to be able to live for free, to be a parasite But We are different. Life gave itself to us – and we shall give it something in return! TSZ 3 #Nietzsche