Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It seems that in or­der to in­scribe them­selves upon the heart of hu­man­ity with ever­last­ing claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enorm­ous and awe-in­spir­ing ca­ri­ca­tures:

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;

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We, who hold a dif­fer­ent be­lief—we, who re­gard the demo­cratic move­ment

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his ill-will to the young Fre­d­er­ick res­ul­ted from the anxi­ety of a pro­found in­stinct. Men were lack­ing; and he sus­pec­ted, to his bitterest re­gret, that his own son was not man enough