#nietzsche

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#darkness #informs #inspires #into #line

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#creativity #nietzsche #vocation #art

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #schopenhauer-as-educator #education

Your educators can only be your liberators. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #schopenhauer-as-educator #education

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #experience

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#nietzsche #humor

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#man #the-will-to-power #respect

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bless #blessed #blunders #forget #forgetful

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#nietzsche #ethics

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#cynical #negative #nietzsche #people #cynicism