I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
Friedrich NietzscheI do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich NietzscheHe who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
Friedrich NietzscheWithout the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live
Friedrich NietzscheThe flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.
Friedrich Nietzsche