To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [….] Without cruelty there is no festival.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world.
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.