Madness & Civilization

“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”

GOD

“To prepare a reversal of values for a certain strong kind of man of the highest spirituality and strength of will and slowly unfetter a host of instincts now kept in check: whoever reflects on this becomes one of us, the free spirits.”

“The third question of self-formation: Do you want to become more content with yourself or more exacting and inexorable?”

“Our psychologists again and again induce us to mistrust the spirit. One always sees those effects of the spirit that make men weak, delicate, and morbid, but now there are coming the new barbarians: cynics, experimenters, and conquerors, who present an union of spiritual superiority with well-being and an excess of strength!”

“Whoever reflects upon the way in which man can be raised to his greatest splendor and power will grasp first of all that he must place himself outside morality.”

“To learn to see boredom enveloped in a higher charm has hitherto been the task of all higher schooling.”

“I have grasped this much: if one had made the rise of great and rare men dependent upon the approval of the many, then there would never have been a single significant man!”