There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from whiThere will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly....more
It is better, in my opinion, to give the era its due, since it demands this so vigorously, and calmly admit that the period of the revered master, of It is better, in my opinion, to give the era its due, since it demands this so vigorously, and calmly admit that the period of the revered master, of the artist with a camellia in his buttonhole, of the armchair genius is over. To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. Hence the question is not to find out if this is or is not prejudicial to art. The question, for all those who cannot live without art and what it signifies, is merely to find out how, among the police force of so many ideologies (how many churches, what solitude!), the strange liberty of creation is possible....more
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questiUltimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible....more
O lumi猫re! c'est le cri de tous les personnages plac茅s, dans le drame antique, devant leur destin. Ce recours dernier 茅tait aussi le n么tre et je le saO lumi猫re! c'est le cri de tous les personnages plac茅s, dans le drame antique, devant leur destin. Ce recours dernier 茅tait aussi le n么tre et je le savais maintenant. Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un 茅t茅 invincible. ...more
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin....more
"The last word Wisdom ever has to say: He only earns his Freedom and Existence, Who's forced to win them freshly every day.""The last word Wisdom ever has to say: He only earns his Freedom and Existence, Who's forced to win them freshly every day."...more
For most people, the intellect is an awkward, gloomy, creaking machine that is hard to start: when they want to work with this machine and think well,For most people, the intellect is an awkward, gloomy, creaking machine that is hard to start: when they want to work with this machine and think well, they call it 'taking the matter seriously' - oh, how taxing good thinking must be for them! The lovely human beast seems to lose its good mood when it thinks well; it becomes 'serious'! And 'where laughter and gaiety are found, thinking is good for nothing' - that is the prejudice of this serious beast against all 'gay science'. Well then, let us prove it a prejudice!...more
Zarathustra spoke thus to the people: "I teach you the 脺bermensch. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?
All crZarathustra spoke thus to the people: "I teach you the 脺bermensch. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?
All creatures hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and do you want to be the ebb of this great tide, and return to the animals rather than overcome man?
What is the ape to the men? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just so shall man be to the 脺bermensch: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.
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The 脺bermensch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The 脺bermensch shall be the meaning of the earth!"...more
鈥淣o," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "A melancholy conclusion," said K. "it 鈥淣o," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "A melancholy conclusion," said K. "it turns lying into a universal principle.鈥...more
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace....more
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