"no one talks more passionately about his..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”
“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”
“Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?”
More on Rights
“I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.”
“Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”
“If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.”
More on Doubt
“My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.”
“A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.”
“We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.”