One Who Has A Why Can Endure

My Formula For Greatness In A Human Being Is Amor Fati: That One Wants Nothing To Be Different, Not Forward, Not Backward, Not In All Eternity. Not Merely Bear What Is Necessary, Still Less Conceal It—all Idealism Is Mendaciousness In The Face Of What Is Necessary—but Love It

The Greatest Events-they Are Not Our Loudest But Our Stillest Hours.

You Say 'i' And You Are Proud Of This Word. But Greater Than This- Although You Will Not Believe In It - Is Your Body And Its Great Intelligence, Which Does Not Say 'i' But Performs 'i'.

Man... Cannot Learn To Forget, But Hangs On The Past: However Far Or Fast He Runs, That Chain Runs With Him.

It Is A Self-deception Of Philosophers And Moralists To Imagine That They Escape Decadence By Opposing It. That Is Beyond Their Will; And, However Little They Acknowledge It, One Later Discovers That They Were Among The Most Powerful Promoters Of Decadence.