It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.
You tell me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war – a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
The bite of conscience is indecent.
One has to know the size of one’s stomach.
Energy wasted on negative ends.
We can destroy only as creators.
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in “another” or “better” life.
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer – to DANCE on the feet of chance.
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome.