“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
-Nietzsche

Happy Saturday

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

- Human, All Too Human

“What? The aim of science should be to give men as much pleasure as and as little displeasure as possible? But what if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much possible of the other?”

- The Gay Science

“Benefitting and hurting others are ways of exercising one’s power upon others; that is all one desires in such cases.”

- The Gay Science

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary.”

- Human, All Too Human

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it."

- Untimely Meditations

“During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.”

- Human, All Too Human

“Almost everywhere it was madness which prepared the way for the new idea, which broke the spell of a venerated usage and superstition.”

- Daybreak

Very Nietzschean.

“The reproaches of conscience are weak even in the most conscientious people compared to the feeling: “This or that is against the morals of your society.” A cold look or a sneer on the face of those among whom and for whom one has been educated is feared even by the strongest. What is it that they are really afraid of? Growing solitude! This is the argument that rebuts even the best arguments for a person or cause. —Thus the herd instinct speaks up in us.”

- The Gay Science

“Insofar as the individual is seeking happiness, one ought not to tender him any prescriptions as to the path to happiness: for individual happiness springs from one's own unknown laws, and prescriptions from without can only obstruct and hinder it. - The prescriptions called 'moral' are in truth directed against individuals and are in no way aimed at promoting their happiness.”

- Daybreak

"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."

- Human, All Too Human

“You shall become the person you are.”

- The Gay Science

“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

- The Gay Science

“A law-book never recites the utility, the grounds, the casuistical antecedents of a law: for if it did so it would lose the imperative tone, the “thou shall,” on which obedience is based.”

- The Antichrist