Mohamed Reda

“In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone on a (Swiss) mountain top. But, intellectually at least, he accepted this condition. Since, he reasoned, a radical social critic, a 'free spirit' such as himself, sets himself ever more in opposition to the foundational agreements on which social life depends, he reduces the pool of possible comrades, and so of possible friends, to vanishing point.”
― Julian Young, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography

“لا تُعلّق سعادتك على آرائ الآخرين فيك ولا تضع هناءك في أيديهم. ذلك " استرقاق " طوعي و " مصادرة " حياة و " نفي " خارج الذات. و ما كنت لترضي أيًّا من ذلك لو كنت تعرف إسمه الحقيقي.”
― ماركوس أوريليوس, التأملات

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations