Human, All Too Human

498

Condition for being a hero. If a man wants to become a hero, the snake must first become a dragon: otherwise he is lacking his proper enemy.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #49812213 years, 2 months ago 

499

Friend. Shared joy, not compassion, makes a friend.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #49911913 years, 2 months ago 

500

Using high and low tides. For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a thing, and then the one that, after a time, draws us away from it.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #50012813 years, 2 months ago 

501

Delight in oneself. "Delight in an enterprise," they say; but in truth it is delight in oneself, by means of an enterprise.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #5018213 years, 2 months ago 

502

The modest one. He who is modest with people shows his arrogance all the more with things (the city, state, society, epoch, or mankind). That is his revenge.

Friedrich NietzscheHuman, All Too Human: Section Nine: Man Alone with Himself - Aphorism #5029513 years, 2 months ago