Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin – more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.
That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere – until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection… Thus spoke Zarathustra.
A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
If every statement is incomplete and every expression is situated upon a silent tacit comprehension, then it must be that things are said and are thought by a Speech and by a Thought which we do not have but which has us.
The world is… the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.