“Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. Letter to Lou Andreas”
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“You have committed one of the greatest stupidities”
“I've seen proof, black on white, that Herr Dr. Förster has not yet severed his connection with the anti”
“So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine. Letter to Carl Fuchs”
“I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise. Letter to Mathilde Mayer, July 16, 1878, cited in Karl Jaspers , Nietzsche (Baltimore: 1997), p. 46”
“But since it is not known where my center is, it won't be easy to find out where or when I have thus far been”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
“there are only facts,”
“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. Letter to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 1865”
“I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor , and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza : that I should have turned to him just now , was inspired by "instinct." Not only is his overtendency like mine”