Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with mon­sters should be care­ful lest he thereby be­come a mon­ster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

any­one were to say to them, “A lofty spir­itu­al­ity is bey­ond all com­par­ison with the hon­esty and re­spect­ab­il­ity of a merely moral man”—it would make them furi­ous,

im­por­tun­ity

Chris­tian­ity is pla­ton­ism for the “people

To re­cog­nise un­truth as a con­di­tion of life

re­nun­ci­ation of false opin­ions would be a re­nun­ci­ation of life, a neg­a­tion of life

mot­ley­ness

palp­able­ness

a thought comes when “it” wishes, and not when “I” wish; so that it is a per­ver­sion of the facts of the case to say that the sub­ject “I” is the con­di­tion of the pre­dic­ate “think

com­mands and at the same time iden­ti­fies him­self with the ex­ecutor of the or­der