Friedrich Nietzsche

Actions can be promised, but not feelings, for these are involuntary.

It seems that in or­der to in­scribe them­selves upon the heart of hu­man­ity with ever­last­ing claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enorm­ous and awe-in­spir­ing ca­ri­ca­tures:

And in fact, I myself do not believe that anybody ever looked into the world with a distrust as deep as mine,

some play upon words

the Ved­anta doc­trine in Asia, and Platon­ism in Europe

Sup­pos­ing, in ef­fect, that man is not just the “meas­ure of things.”

To re­cog­nise un­truth as a con­di­tion of life;

love of truth, love of wis­dom, sac­ri­fice for know­ledge, hero­ism of the truth­ful—there is some­thing in them that makes one’s heart swell with pride.

Thou art more! thou art higher! thou hast a dif­fer­ent ori­gin!”—this may be a strange and fool­ish task, but that it is a task, who can deny!

hear with pleas­ure that our sun is mov­ing rap­idly to­wards the con­stel­la­tion Her­cules: and I hope that the men on this earth will do like the sun. And we fore­most, we good Europeans!