Ecce Homo

About Ecce Homo

Inception: 1600

Notable quotes

“Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.”
— Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
“Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt. — Und wir — Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.”
— God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
“I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
— Part II, Chapter 13
“The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence — here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws."”
— Sec. 630 (Notebook W I 4. June - July 1885, KGW VII, 3.283, KSA 11.559)
“Kierkegaard's criticism of actual Christianity is an inner one; he does not confront Christianity, as, for example, Nietzsche does, with an alleged higher value, and test it by that and reject it.”
— Martin Buber, criticizing Nietzsche's concept of "Will to Power," Between Man and Man (1965), p. 61
“Nietzsche, like other young men of great intellectual gifts, was debilitated by the effects of masturbation.”
— Richard Wagner, as quoted by Siegfried Mandel in the Introduction to Nietzsche by Lou Salmoé (University of Illinois press, 2001), page 55

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