Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
Friedrich NietzscheThe spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Friedrich NietzscheFathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
Friedrich NietzscheThis demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.
Friedrich Nietzsche