In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheBut say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
Friedrich NietzscheAs soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.
Friedrich NietzscheSometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
Friedrich Nietzsche