Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things ne...
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
Be good, or be good at it.
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
To be adult is to be alone.
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.
Home wasn't built in a day.
The journey is my home.
There's no outdoing The Beatles.
It's weird not to be weird.
My hits are not hits.
My music is a luxury.
Music is a form of prayer.
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.