Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Advantage And Disadvantage Of History For Life Quotes
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
Every past is worth condemning.
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.
The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.
... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.