Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
School is a foretaste of life.
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.
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