Discontent is the seed of ethics.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more.
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom – for example, in senates and learned societies.
Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.
One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue. The hour when you say, ‘What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness ought to justify […]
The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
