"We are always in our own company...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
We are always in our own company.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.”
“Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.”
“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
More on Self Reliance
“I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.”
“Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."”
“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.”
More on Solitude
“I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.”
“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”
“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.”