

“Alas, he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious, and blundering even the best and deepest love is--he finds that it rather DESTROYS than saves!
It is possible that under the holy fable and travesty of the life of Jesus there is hidden one of the most painful cases of the martyrdom of KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LOVE: the martyrdom of the most innocent and most craving heart, that never had enough of any human love, that DEMANDED love, that demanded inexorably and frantically to be loved and nothing else, with terrible outbursts against those who refused him their love; the story of a poor soul insatiated and insatiable in love, that had to invent hell to send thither those who WOULD NOT love him--and that at last, enlightened about human love, had to invent a God who is entire love, entire CAPACITY for love--who takes pity on human love, because it is so paltry, so ignorant! He who has such sentiments, he who has such KNOWLEDGE about love-SEEKS for death!--But why should one deal with such painful matters? Provided, of course, that one is not obliged to do
SO”
― Beyond Good and Evil
It is possible that under the holy fable and travesty of the life of Jesus there is hidden one of the most painful cases of the martyrdom of KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LOVE: the martyrdom of the most innocent and most craving heart, that never had enough of any human love, that DEMANDED love, that demanded inexorably and frantically to be loved and nothing else, with terrible outbursts against those who refused him their love; the story of a poor soul insatiated and insatiable in love, that had to invent hell to send thither those who WOULD NOT love him--and that at last, enlightened about human love, had to invent a God who is entire love, entire CAPACITY for love--who takes pity on human love, because it is so paltry, so ignorant! He who has such sentiments, he who has such KNOWLEDGE about love-SEEKS for death!--But why should one deal with such painful matters? Provided, of course, that one is not obliged to do
SO”
― Beyond Good and Evil

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“Who has not, at one time or another, sacrificed himself for the sake of his good name.”
― BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL BY Friedrich Nietzsche: Translated by Helen Zimmern
― BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL BY Friedrich Nietzsche: Translated by Helen Zimmern

“When worries associated with the crisis arises at other times. Remind yourself that you will think them through, during the scheduled period”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“The consequences of our own actions seize us by the forelock, very indifferent to the fact that we have meanwhile reformed.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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