No herdsman, and one herd! Everyone wants the same; everyone is equal: whoever thinks otherwise goes voluntarily into the madhouse.
...'No shepherd [Hirte], and one herd! Everyone wants the same; everyone is equal: whoever thinks otherwise goes voluntarily into the asylum [Irrenhaus].
... the formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression.
Verily, also new stars did I make them see, along with new nights; and over clouds and day and night I stretched out laughter, like a gay-coloured canopy.
I taught them all my poetization [Dichten: poetizing, poetry] and aspiration [Trachten: striving, desire] to compose and collect into unity what is fragment in man, and riddle and fearful chance.
As composer [Dichter: poet, lit. dictator], riddle-reader and redeemer of chance did I teach them to create the future, and all that has been -- to redeem by creating.
What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on it?
You are no stone, but already you have become hollow by the numerous drops. You will yet break and burst by the numerous drops.
It is the stillest words that bring on the storm. Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps direct the world.
O my brethren, is not everything at present in flux?
Once again did one distrust all soothsayers and astrologers; and therefore did one believe, "Everything is freedom: you can, for you will!" O my brethren, concerning the stars and the future there has hitherto been only illusion, and not knowledge; ...
"If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory" -- this is a main clause of the oldest (unhappily also the most enduring) psychology on earth.
... all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.
I have no doubt for what sole purpose modern books (if they last, which we fortunately have little reason to fear, and if there will one day be a posterity with a more severe, harder, healthier taste) -- for what purpose everything modern will serve this posterity: as an emetic -- and that on account of its moral mawkishness and falseness, its innermost feminism that likes to call itself "idealism" and at any rate believes it is idealism.
