The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly.
Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
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We must therefore allow certain people their solitude and not be so stupid, as we so often are, as to pity them for it.
Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
But this is an old and never-ending story…as soon as a philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image, it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to ‘creation of the world,’ to causa prima.
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
For every drive is tyrannical: and it is as such that it tries to philosophize.
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“…every great philosophy has hitherto been a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
A self is the last thing the world cares about and the most dangerous thing of all for a person to show signs of having.
Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
It seems that, in order to inscribe themselves in the hearts of humanity with eternal demands, all great things have first to wander the earth as monstrous and fear-inspiring grotesques…
Nietzsche
Above all, one should not wish to divest existence of its rich ambiguity: that is a dictate of good taste, gentlemen, the taste of reverence for everything that lies beyond your horizon.
Nietzsche
Unless I discover the alchemical trick of turning this muck into gold, I am lost.
Nietzsche, in a letter to Overbeck
“…the path to one’s own heaven always leads through the voluptuousness of one’s own hell.”
Nietzsche