

“[The neurotic] draws back [from his life tasks] not because of any real impossibility but because of an artificial barrier invented by himself…From this moment on he suffers from an internal conflict. Now the realization of his cowardice gains the upper hand, now defiance and pride. In either case his [energy] is engaged in a useless civil war, and the man becomes incapable of any new enterprise…His efficiency is reduced, he is not fully adapted, he has become – in a word – neurotic.”
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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
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