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Friedrich Nietzsche
"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"
"The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world."
"Original.- Not that one is the first to see something new, but that one sees as new what is old, long familiar, seen and overlooked by everybody, is what distinguishes truly original minds. The first discoverer is ordinarily that wholly common creature, devoid of spirit and addicted to fantasy- accident."
"In order to look for beginnings one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards; at last he also believes backwards."
"[The critical student of the past] must possess the strength, and must at times apply this strength, to the destruction and dissolution of the past in order to be able to live. He achieves this by calling the past into court, putting it under indictment, and finally condemning it; any past, however, deserves to be condemned, for such is the condition of human affairs that they are ruled by violence and weakness…For we are inevitably the result of earlier generations and thus the result of their mistakes, their passions and aberrations, even of their crimes; it is not possible to loosen oneself entirely from this chain...Afterwards, we try to give ourselves a new past from which we should have liked to descend instead of the past from which we actually descended. But this is also dangerous, because it is so difficult to trace the limit of one's denial of the past..."
"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."
"To move the crowd.--Must not anyone who wants to move the crowd be an actor who impersonates himself? Must he not first translate himself into grotesque obviousness and then present his whole person and cause in this coarsened and simplified version?"
"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
"Art belongs not to nature, but to man alone.- In nature there is no sound, it is mute; no color. No form either, for form is the result of a reflection of the surface in the eye, but essentially there is neither high nor low, neither inside nor outside. If we could see by any other means than this reflection, we would not speak of forms but we would perhaps see into the interior, so that our eyes would gradually cut through a thing. Nature, if we subtract our subjectivity, is a matter of great indifference, most uninteresting, neither the mysterious original ground, nor the enigma of the world disclosed…the more we dehumanize nature, the emptier and more meaningless it becomes for us.- Art is based entirely on humanized nature, on nature enveloped in and interwoven with errors and illusions which no art can disregard."
"From experience. That something is irrational is no argument against its existence, but rather a condition for it."
Now I go alone, my disciples, You, too, go now, alone. Thus I want it.
Go away from me and resist Zarathustra! And even better: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he decieved you.
The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. And why do you not want to pluck at my wreath?
You revere me; but what if your reverence tumbles one day? Beware lest a statue slay you.
You say that you believe in Zarathustra? But what matters Zarathustra? You are my believers- but what matter all believers?
You had not yet sought yourselves; and you found me. Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to so little.
Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when you have all denied me will I return to you."
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