Domhnall

S4: Suppose I had published my Zarathustra under another name - for example, that of Richard Wagner - the acuteness of two thousand years would not have been enough for anyone to guess that the author of Human All Too Human is the visionary of Zarathustra

S5: Scholars spend all their energies on saying Yes or No, on criticism of what others have thought - they themselves no longer think.

S5 Early in the morning, when day breaks, when all is fresh, in the dawn of one’s strength - to read a book at such a time is simply depraved.

S10: ...these small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. Precisely here one must begin to relearn. What mankind has so far considered seriously have not even been realities but mere imaginings - more strictly speaking, lies prompted by the bad instincts of sick natures that were harmful in the most profound sense - all these concepts, “God,” “soul,” “virtue,” “sin,” “beyond,” “truth,” “eternal life,” - But the greatness of human nature, its “divinity,” was sought in them. - All the problems of politics, of social organization, and of education have been falsified through and through because one mistook the most harmful men for great men - because one learned to despise the “little” things, which means the basic concerns of life.

S11: My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it.