"I need solitude, which is to say,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
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“Every word is a prejudice.”
“A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.”
“No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.”
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“Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.”
“Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.”
“Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”
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“My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.”
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”
“In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.”