"Nobody can build the bridge for you, over which just you have to cross the river of life - nobody but you alone."
 

"How could somebody become a thinker, if he does not spend at least the third part of the day without passions, men and books?"
 

"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: They take something they can use, soil and jumble up the rest and defame the whole."
 

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
 

"One shall paint on the wall neither God nor the Devil. One would disfigure his wall and his neighbourhood."
 

"We who are homeless are too manifold and mixed racially and in our descent, being 'modern men', and consequently do not feel tempted to participate in the mendacious racial self-admiration and racial indecency that parades in Germany today as a sign of a German way of thinking and that is doubly false and obscene among the people of the 'historical sense'. We are, in one word - and let this be our word of honor - good Europeans."
 

"I have discovered for me, that the old man- and animalkind and even the whole prehistory and past of all sentient being is composing forth, loving forth, hating forth, considering forth in me - suddenly I woke up in the midst of this dream, but only to the consciousness that I am dreaming and that I must dream on so as not to perish: Just like the sleep-walker must dream on as not to fall down. What does 'illusion' mean to me now!"
 

"We dream either not at all or interesting. We must learn to be awake just so - not at all or interesting."
 

"I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar."
 

"Blood is the worst of all testimonies to the truth; blood poisons even the purest teaching and turns it into madness and hatred in the heart."
 
 
 

 Essay "Nietzsche and Literature" (only German)
 

Deeper interested Nietzsche-scholars can read my complete  master-thesis "Erkenntnis und Wissenschaft in der Philosophie Friedrich Nietzsches" (only German).
 
 
 

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