Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
Interpretation
Embrace the importance of your thoughts and dedicate yourself to them with utmost respect and commitment.
Friedrich Nietzsche emphasizes the significance of our thoughts in shaping our destiny. He advocates for honoring the act of thinking as a noble pursuit, suggesting that one should dedicate their best efforts and sacrifices to the thoughts that are most cherished and impactful. This reflects the idea that our inner life and mental processes are central to our existence and should be treated with reverence.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-reflection and personal growth.
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.
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
Ah! never shall the land forget.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
In America, a black man has to feel like he's God just to make it a little bit when white people can just feel human. They can just be themselves, but for me, I feel we have to start instilling that back into our people. That pride. That black power. That privilege to be alive.
There is no road towards peace; peace is the road
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