On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
Only sick music makes money today.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
Morality in Europe today is herd-morality
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
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