"To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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“Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.”
“It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.”
More on Will
“Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.”
“When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.”
“A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.”
More on Impulse
“Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.”
“A passion-driven exultant man sings outSentences that he has never thought.”
“Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual”