Monday, October 23, 2006

Thus spake Nietzsche

Here are a few quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche that I recently came across:

  • Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
  • The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
  • A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
  • Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
  • Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
  • It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

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