#ra

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. ↗

— Elinor Wylie

#escaped #fear #file #go #masks

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #possess #quality #striving #strong

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#extreme #moderate #ones #positions #succeeded

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #curative #even #every #grand

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#experience #experiences #genus #guarantee #inward

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#morality

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#admired #day #found #innocence #might

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#any #church #circumstances #does #every