"From the military school of life. -- What does not kill me makes me stronger." (maxims & arrows)
"Which is it? Is man only God's mistake or God only man's mistake? --" (m&a)
"Phosthumous men -- like me, for instance -- are not so well understood as timely men, but they are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood -- and hence our authority." (m&a)
"To get into only those situations in which illusory virtues are of no use, but in which, like the tightrope-walker on his rope, one either falls or stands -- or gets off..." (m&a)
"Women are considered deep -- why? because one can never discover the bottom to them. Women are not even shallow." (m&a)
"Are you genuine? or only an actor? A representative? or that itself which is represented? -- Finally you are no more than an imitation of an actor...Second question of conscience." (m&a)
“Do you want to accompany? or go on ahead? or go off alone? ... One must know what one wants and that one wants. Fourth question of conscience.” (m&a)
“What does it matter that I am proved right! I am too much in the right. -- And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.” (m&a)
“Reason = virtue = happiness means merely: one must imitate Socrates and counter the dark desires by producing a permanent daylight -- the daylight of reason. One must be prudent, clear, bright at any cost: every yielding to the instincts, to the unconscious, leads downwards.” (43)
“We possess scientific knowledge today to precisely the extent that we have decided to accept the evidence of the senses -- to the extent that we have learned to sharpen and arm them and to think them through to their conclusions.” (46)
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