Friedrich Nietzsche: Doing

“Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend”

“We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.”

“We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement”

“Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?… you must knowyou want andyou want. Fourth question for the conscience.”

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”

“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”

“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”

“Worldly Wisdom

Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height.”

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.”

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”