The snake that cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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The snake that cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became ‘geniuses’ (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be a mind.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
… has a why to live for can bear almost any how
– Friedrich Nietzsche
……. is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
– Friedrich Nietzsche