Author of quotes: Igor Ivanovich Garin. Page 54

The author puts beauty and absolute acceptance of life as it is in the first place.

There are so many morning dawns that have not yet shone.

Our actions are never what they seem. It took us tremendous work to understand that the outside world is not at all what it seems to us. The same can be said about the inner world.

Nietzsche came to the conclusion that life has the property of self-preservation, expansion, growth. Her powers are limitless.

I have a suspicion that this most sensitive of people exaggerated his suffering somewhat, for for thin, gentle souls they are always immeasurable.

There is a version according to which the suffering of the great diagnostician of culture was self-reinforced through his own psyche - listening intently to himself, focusing on himself.

I have always been impressed by the idea of geniuses communicating among themselves through time and space. People of different destinies, different paradigms, different mentalities and ... so close in spirit.

Burckhardt, this admirer of the Renaissance and singer of personality, was impressed by Nietzsche's warning against socialism, which “longs for the fullness of state power that only the most extreme despotism possessed, and it even surpasses the entire past in that it seeks the formal destruction of the individual; the latter seems to him an unlawful luxury nature, and he wants to reform it, turning it into an expedient organ of the collective.

Friedrich Nietzsche is read only when he defends our ideas.

Nietzsche temporarily sacrifices even the cult of genius, even to the despised masses, he pays debts. Now even true greatness seems fatal to him, because it seeks to "suppress with itself many weaker forces and embryos," while it is more just and desirable that not only great natures live, but that there is enough air and light for the weaker and gentler ones."

It is indescribable what happens to the chosen ones of mankind at the moment when they become the chosen ones.

There was a chasm between him and the others, which from that moment was only to widen.

Nietzsche found the strength to renounce the romantic hobbies of youth, and from pessimism, and from the consequences of his own greenhouse upbringing.

Nietzsche long ago realized that his health is closely related to mood.