When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts. |
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. |
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. |
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! |
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre |
Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war. |
Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind. |
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. |
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself |
Whoever does not know how to lay his will into things at least lays some meaning into them - that means he has the faith that they already obey some will |
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. |
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster |
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return |
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed. |
Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water. |