In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
Friedrich NietzschePosthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich NietzscheBooks and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
Friedrich Nietzsche