And this is why solitary confinement is considered one of the worst types of torture

- Succession
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Your eyes, however, can I not forget: your deep, loving gaze still rests upon me, as it did then … I relived everything and found myself so rich – so rich – because you had given me your heart.

- Louise Ott to Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion arises from fear of nature, morality from fear of human beings.

- Paul Rée

Metaphysical assumptions are passionate errors of self-delusion. Nevertheless, Nietzsche is willing to concede that there might be a metaphysical world as one can hardly dispute the possibility of it. But even if the existence of a metaphysical world were demonstrated, it is certain that knowledge of it would be the most useless of all knowledge: more useless even than the knowledge of the chemical composition of water must be to the sailor in danger of shipwreck.

- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche

I want no adherents

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever allows himself to speak in public is obliged also to contradict himself in public, as soon as he changes his opinions.

- Ernst Schmeitzner, Nietzsche's publisher

كلُّ مَن يوجِّه حديثَه للعامة يكونُ بالضرورة متناقضًا كُلّما غَيّرَ آراءَه.

When the populace becomes involved in thinking, all is lost.

- Voltaire

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If you want to improve the people, give them better food instead of declamations against sin. Man is what he eats.

- Ludwig Feuerbach

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(probably) why Nietzsche had a big moustache:

During these migrant years, people remembered his quietness, his passivity, his soft voice, his poor but neatly kept dress, the scrupulous good manners he showed towards all, particularly women, and the eerie absence of expression produced by the fact of his mouth being permanently invisible behind the moustache and his eyes behind blue-or green-lensed glasses, his whole face further deeply shaded by the green visor. But for all that, he was no shadow, he was never overlooked; his presence was all the more noticeable for the noli me tangere aura within which he moved. He made the discovery that ‘The gentlest, and most reasonable of men can, if he wears a large moustache, sit as it were in its shade and feel safe there – he will usually be seen as no more than the appurtenance of a large moustache, that is to say a military type, easily angered and occasionally violent – and as such he will be treated.’


- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Lou Salomé placed enormous importance on Nietzsche's illness as a creative source. He needed no flamboyance, no outward proof of genius, so long as he had his illness. It enabled him to live numberless lifetimes within the one. She noticed how his life fell into a general pattern. A regular recurrent decline into sickness always demarcated one period of his life from another. Every illness was a death, a dip down into Hades. Every recuperation was a joyful rebirth, a regeneration.

- I Am Dynamite, A Life Of Friedrich Nietzsche