This account was newly created to share a selected series of Nietzsche quotes every few hours, as an (active) Nietzsche quote bot in English translation does not exist on Twitter. Pulling from all sources- including letters, unpublished notebooks, and student philological works.
I came home astonishingly refreshed late at night and sat at my desk to write bitter words in the book of reflections and to cover up the vanity I had enjoyed on the blackboard of my consciousness.
I fantasize about a day in which we have all experienced the ecstasy of the sight of infinity and selfless unity with the uncountable set of objects that comprises nature, and see such a day as the justification and triumph of a presently rash, foreign, and controversial ambition
I forced myself to go to bed at 2 a.m. for 14 days in a row and to leave it at exactly 6 a.m. A nervous excitement seized me, and who knows to what degree of folly I would have advanced if the compulsion to study regularly had not acted against it.
In pulling all of my qualities and aspirations before the forum of somber self-loathing, I have been bitter, unjust, and rampant in the hatred directed against myself.
The restless, melancholy diary sheets of that time with their useless self-accusations and their desperate looking up to the sanctification and transformation of the whole human core are still witnesses of that change.
In fact, in most colleges I was really not attracted to the subject matter at all, only the form in which the academic teacher brought his wisdom to the man.
Let us suppose that fate gave someone who was jealous what he longed for with greedy eyes: it would cling to him like an inorganic growth, sucking out his strength, shattering his will and giving him new gleaming illusions
It is a sign of a strong nature to recognize in things an indissoluble chain of causes and effects, and not simply to believe that sown grain does not produce wheat, but to extend the same laws to human life and the history of nations