Human, All Too Human

Friedrich Nietzsche

“…become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities… acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims…”

Nietzsche on what it really means to be a free spirit:

Schopenhauer as Educator: Nietzsche’s Third Untimely Meditation

Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!”

Nietzsche on how to find yourself — one of the wisest things ever written:

The Will to Power

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche on why a fulfilling life requires embracing rather than running from difficulty – a century and a half before our modern fetishism of failure, a seminal philosophical case for its value: