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  1. May 7, 2010

    Very True

  2. May 8, 2010

    Heavy duty.

    Ben Koshkin

  3. May 8, 2010

    “You travel faster, when you travel alone….” Bruce Springsteen (paraphrased)….

    I have always liked this perspective of life…control your own destiny…do not be like sheep……never say “what are we going to do?” rather say, “What am i I going to do?”

  4. May 28, 2010

    You know, it’s very poetic to think that we are individuals who exist at the margin of others, but the truth is, originality doesn’t exist. We are, truly, compounds of experiences and moments, and other people. We are unique, but not original, and so, we can’t actually OWN ourselves.. we can solely own our choices.

  5. May 28, 2010

    from which Nietzsche book is this?

    • admin #
      May 28, 2010

      I dont have a clue to be honest

  6. Tom #
    May 28, 2010

    Sometimes i enjoy running with the pack. It’s not that I blinding follow the pack, but rather i CHOOSE to go the same direction they are going

  7. Jim #
    May 29, 2010

    You all do know that Neitzsche was the main influence for Hitler, right?

  8. May 30, 2010

    Absolutely, sometimes is hard going against the road, but one day one will receive the rewards

  9. June 10, 2010

    @Jim: Not by choice, it was his sister who gave it to Hitler.

    Similarly, the Holy Bible has been used in ways it wasn’t intended, does make it less important as a work of literature?

    “Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than one already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.”
    – Nietzsche

  10. June 11, 2010

    @meMyselfEye

    Well said.

  11. June 16, 2010

    You do realize that ol’ Fred was certifiably insane, don’t you?

  12. ben #
    July 1, 2010

    You do realize if you continue to judge messages by the messenger you will continue to appear the fool?

  13. Alex #
    September 26, 2010

    What a tragic, lonely, damaged man. We are wired to love and to share, and to allow oursleves to be “influenced” ie affected.A lack of affect is a lack of emotion, and is a sign of severe pathology.
    The number of boys I met at college who were obsessed with Neitzche, and kept it up past 2nd year is one.He’s dead now.What a fucking waste.

  14. Well Informed #
    September 28, 2010

    @Piece of 8
    You do realize that this happened to him after all of his major philosophical contributions, don’t you? As a matter of fact, it was in his last year of life.
    @Alex
    You missed the whole point.

  15. Pierre #
    September 30, 2010

    Although this is an awesome quote, I am saddened by the amount of people who have either completely misinterpreted, misunderstood, or missed the point of Nietzsche’s philosophy. @Alex, have you ever heard the great, heartwarming quote “Without music, life would be a mistake.”? Author? Nietzsche. If everyone who was commenting here saying Nietzsche was an influence on Hitler or he was insane etc. ever read just a bit more Nietzsche than what you found interspersed here and there on the Internet, you would know that Nietzsche was not an anti-emotional racist homophobic white supremacist Nazi but quite on the contrary, a realistic, emotional, and powerful thinker.

    People really need to read past the tips of their noses.

  16. Megan M #
    October 7, 2010

    I am almost positive that this is from “the genealogy of morals”

  17. Don L #
    October 28, 2010

    I like this quote and it’s weird that he’s popping up everywhere I just found out I shared a birthday with him too.

  18. November 12, 2010

    This was Kipling’s quote, not Nietzsche’s.

  19. January 4, 2011

    sometimes is hard going against the road, but at sometimes aswell, its fruit is sweet.

  20. May 22, 2011

    Nicely said šŸ™‚

  21. December 22, 2011

    Great post. Perhaps my best quote by Friedrich Nietzsche is “one must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star”

  22. Sam Thomas #
    January 26, 2018

    Well done! thank you for sharing, loved it! Iā€™m going to share! Especially with the young people in my life.

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