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Nietzsche Quotes

In the sidebar, on the left of this page, you’ll notice that I am still involved with the Basic Writings of Nietzsche. Though I am a quick study, and an even more powerful reader, I have chewed on this tome like a Ju Ju, picking pieces out of my mind to chew again and again. I shall soon turn the last page in this book, but before I do, I will post some quotes, winnowed like kernels of wheat, which I have spent a considerable amount of time mulling over. I find them nourishing.

“One has to sit firmly upon oneself, one must stand bravely on one’s own two legs, otherwise one is simply incapable of loving.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Translated and Edited by Walter Kaufmann, Ecce Homo, Why I Write Such Good Books, pg. 722

“Knowledge, saying Yes to reality, is just as necessary for the strong as cowardice and the flight from reality--as the “ideal” is for the weak, who are inspired by weakness.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Translated and Edited by Walter Kaufmann, Ecce Homo, “The Birth of Tragedy," pg. 728

Last, but far from least, the following quote, which called to my thoughts the political circus surrounding us in this year.

“When I now compare myself with the men who have so far been honored as the first, the difference is palpable. I do not even count these so called “first” men among men in general: for me they are the refuse of humanity, monsters of sickness and venegeful instincts; they are inhuman, disastrous, at bottom incurable, and revenge themselves on life.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Translated and Edited by Walter Kaufmann, Ecce Homo, Why I Am So Clever, pg.712

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