Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
Friedrich NietzscheGreat men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
Friedrich NietzscheSince Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
Friedrich NietzscheHere the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be masterโฆ Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? โThou shaltโ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, โI will.
Friedrich Nietzsche