Quotes About Sacrifice

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

One pays dearly for any kind of mastery on earth, where perhaps one pays too dearly for everything; one is master of one's trade at the price of also being its victim.

It is the richness of a personality, the fullness of it, its power to flow over and to bestow, its instinctive feeling of ease, and its affirmative attitude towards itself, that creates great love and great sacrifices: these passions proceed from strong and godlike personalism as surely as do the desire to be master, to obtrude, and the inner certainty that one has a right to everything.

They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.

What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

Every smallest step in the field of free thinking, and of the personally formed life, has ever been fought for at the cost of spiritual and physical tortures . . . change has required its innumerable martyrs. . . . Nothing has been bought more dearly than that little bit of human reason and sense of freedom that is now the basis of our pride.

Affirmation of life even in its strangest and sternest problems; the will to life rejoicing in its own inexhaustibility through the sacrifice of its highest types - that is what I call dionysian

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

The man who has come to know vice in connection with pleasure... imagines that virtue must be associated with displeasure.

let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless.

What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be well laden.

He who strays from tradition becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its slave. Destruction follows in any case.

Of all that is written, I love only that which a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.