Quote #138
Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
- One seeks a midwife for his thoughts, another someone to whom he can be a midwife: thus originates a good conversation.
- Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Bose.
- Anyone who despises himself will still respect himself as a despiser.
- Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
- The sage as astronomer. - If you still experience the stars as something 'over you,' you still don't have the eyes of a knower.
- The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.
- One has only seen little of life, if one hasn't also seen the hand that mercifully - kills.
- In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.