“Those who deny chance. — 'No victor believes in chance.”
Die Leugner des Zufalls.
'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.
Sec. 258
The Gay Science (1882)
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Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols
Variant translation: Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 38
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
Context: My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic [genüsslich] — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization...
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Source: Human, All Too Human
283 http://books.google.com/books?id=_GLTsGHUxDgC&lpg=PA171&dq=Today%20as%20always%2C%20men%20fall%20into%20two%20groups&pg=PA171#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None