Nietzsche

Soo I was reading over old journals today, and stumbled upon some quotes that I jotted down while reading 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'. I love finding old quotes, and thinking about why they meant so much to me at the time of reading the novel.. So I thought I'd share!

"Happiness should justify existence itself."

"..man is a polluted river... One must be a sea, to recieve a polluted river and not be defiled."

"I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are."

"As soon as you feel yourself against me you have ceased to understand my position... You have to be the victim of the same passion!"

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"One must want to experience the great problems with one's body and one's soul." (beside this I wrote - "understand the desire to question")

Then I wrote - "A True Philosopher - He can feel his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."

"I love him who lives for knowledge and who wants knowledge that one day the Superman may live. And thus he wills his own downfall."

"I love him who is ashamed when the dice falls in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? - for he wants to perish."

"I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you."

"You must discover ten truths a day: otherwise you will seek truth in the night too, with your soul still hungry."