Herkes aynı yemeği yemekten bıkar. Her güzel kadının olduğu yerde, bir de onu düzmekten bıkmış zavallı bir erkek vardır!

Oh, they said God was dead, all those beatniks and snooty-ass Frenchmen. Not me. I knew better. I said to them, "Wait, boys! Don't break cover yet awhile. He might be faking. I mean, they thought Saddam was dead. And the novel. And Glenn Close in that last scene of Fatal Attraction." That's what I said. But did they listen? Ohh no. They went right ahead and organized God's funeral. Well, don't count your chickens before they come home to roost...

Nietzsche’s point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses, threatens and charms; certain features impress themselves upon us, others recede into the perphery, unnoticed. Our experience of the world is fundamentally value-laden.

But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn't it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to be eternal that one most loves life and the world.

Hazin tarafı şu ki, bu cins azapları bütün dünya bir asır evvel yaşadı, bitirdi. Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx geldiler, geçtiler. Dostoyevski Suat'tan seksen sene evvel bu azabı çekti. Bizim için yeni nedir bilir misiniz? Ne Eluard'ın şiiri, ne de Comte Stravoguine'in azabıdır. Bizim için yeni, en ufak Türk köyünde, Anadolu'nun en ücra köşesinde bu akşam olan cinayet, arazi kavgası veya boşanma hadisesidir. Bilmem, fikrimi anlayabiliyor musunuz?

Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont-ils sombres? Demandez-vous qui sont les gens satisfaits, rassurés et éternellement joyeux! Laissez-moi vous donner la réponse : ce sont ceux qui ont une mauvaise vue ― la populace et les enfants!

Acesta este pasul pe care Zarathustra nu l-a putut face: pasul către „omul cel mai urât”, omul adevărat. Împotrivirea şi frica faţă de el dovedesc cât de mare este puterea de atracţie şi de seducţie a ceea ce este inferior. Separarea de inferior nu este o soluţie.

In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is such, that he who sees them must also take part in them.' Similarly, an anthropology of the practising life is infected by its subject. Dealing with practices, asceticisms and exercises, whether or not they are declared as such, the theorist inevitably encounters his own inner constitution, beyond affirmation and denial.

Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.

Er liebte nichts als seine Freiheit, sein ewiges Studententum, und zog es vor, lebenslänglich der Leidende, der Unberechenbare und störrische Einzelgänger zu sein, der geniale Narr und Nihilist, statt den Weg der Einordnung in die Hierarchie zu gehen und zum Frieden zu gelangen.