Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Interpretation
Genuine love is built on deeper connections rather than superficial desires.
Friedrich Nietzsche reflects on the nature of romantic relationships, suggesting that many so-called 'love matches' are based on illusions and unmet emotional needs. Ultimately, he implies that true love should arise from authenticity and mutual understanding, rather than merely from societal expectations or personal deficiencies.
In practice
During a wedding speech, one might reflect on the true meanings of love and connection.
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.
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