“Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.” WorldGivingTryingGoalExistenceNobleSettingSettingsLofty Book:Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by A. G. Chater.) [Translations of Source: Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by A. G. Chater.) [Translations of
“Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.” ShouldTryingHumansPersonsEffortRaceCenturyHuman RaceEducateSingle Person Book:Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition) Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)
“My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.” PeopleTryingRunningFatherImpossibleHillsFasterGrassClimbsOld PeopleAstonishingStairs Author:Georg Brandes