Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.
Friedrich NietzscheTo explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
Friedrich NietzscheIn every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
Friedrich NietzscheAll idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.
Friedrich Nietzsche