“The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courag...” — Friedrich Nietzsche Quote

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

I've always wanted to have the courage to play, to be the one that's visible when everyone's heads are down.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?