Friedrich Nietzsche

Actions can be promised, but not feelings, for these are involuntary.

And in fact, I myself do not believe that anybody ever looked into the world with a distrust as deep as mine,

some play upon words

the Ved­anta doc­trine in Asia, and Platon­ism in Europe

Sup­pos­ing, in ef­fect, that man is not just the “meas­ure of things.”

To re­cog­nise un­truth as a con­di­tion of life;

The me­diocre?—This for the chapter: “Mor­als as Timid­ity

with whom it “no longer has much danger.”—This also for the chapter: “Mor­als as Timid­ity.”

In­san­ity in in­di­vidu­als is some­thing rare—but in groups, parties, na­tions, and epochs it is the rule.

Such gen­esis is im­possible; who­ever dreams of it is a fool, nay, worse than a fool; things of the highest value must have a dif­fer­ent ori­gin, an ori­gin of their own—in this trans­it­ory, se­duct­ive, il­lus­ory, paltry world, in this tur­moil of de­lu­sion and cu­pid­ity, they can­not have their source. But rather in the lap of Be­ing, in the in­trans­it­ory, in the con­cealed God, in the ‘Th­ing-in-it­self’—there must be their source, and nowhere else!”