The vain.-- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging,concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak
Will and willingness.-- Someone took a youth to a sage and said:"Look,he is being corrupted by women." The sage shook his head and smiled."It is men," said he,"that corrupt women; and all the failings of women should be atoned by and improved in men.For it is man who creates for himself the image of woman,and woman forms herself according to this image."
"You are too kind-hearted about women," said one of those present; "you do not know them." The sage replied:"Will is the manner of men; willingness that of women.That is the law of the sexes - truly,a hard law for women.All of humanity is innocent of its existence; but women are doubly innocent.Who could have oil and kindness enough for them?"
"Damn oil!Damn kindness!" someone shouted out of the crowd; "Women need to be educated better!" - "Men need to be educated better," said the sage and beckoned to the youth to follow him.- The youth,however,did not follow him.
from Nietzsche's The Gay Science
Anti-theses.-- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.-- In the former,knowledge of human nature has ceased,in the latter it has not yet even begun.
from Nietzsche's Assorted Opinions and Maxims
In the stream.-- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
from Nietzsche's Human,all too Human