"Active, successful natures act, not according to..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.
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“The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.”
“No journey is too great,when one finds what one seeks.”
“Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.”
More on Self Creation
“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
“You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.”
“Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”
More on Will
“If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.”
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
“Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)”