What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
- Excerpt From: Human, All Too Human. Aphorism 75 “Love and Duality”, by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus would I have man and woman: fit for war, the one; fit for maternity, the other; both, however, fit for dancing with head and legs. And lost be the day to us in which a measure hath not been danced. And false be every truth which hath not had laughter along with it!
- Excerpt From: On Old and New Tablets 23 / Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole of the West no longer possesses the instincts out of which institutions grow, out of which a future grows: perhaps nothing antagonizes its “modern spirit” so much. One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called “freedom.” That which makes an institution an institution is despised, hated, repudiated: one fears the danger of a new slavery the moment the word “authority” is even spoken out loud. That is how far decadence has advanced in the value-instincts of our politicians, of our political parties: instinctively they prefer what disintegrates, what hastens the end.
- Excerpt From: Twilight of The Idols, by Friedrich Nietzsche