Quotes About Transcendence

Almost everything we call higher culture is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.

Good and evil, and joy and pain, and I and you- colored vapors did they seem to me before creative eyes. The creator wished to look away from himself,- and so he created the world.

Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says 'All for me' is a horror to us.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

God has given us music so that firstly we are lead towards higher things. Music combines all characteristics in it. It can elevate, it can tease, it can cheer us up, yes, it can even break the most brazen temperament with its tender and yearning sounds. However, its main aim is to direct our thinking towards higher things, to elevate and even deeply disturb us…

My task: the dehumanization of Nature, and then the naturalization of humanity, after it has attained the pure concept of 'Nature'. Human beings and philosophers have in the past projected the human into nature — let us dehumanize nature.

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so shall a man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed

When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in "the beyond"—in nothingness—then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether.

Of what use is a book that never transports us beyond all books

Did I seek where the wind bites keenest, learn to live where no one lives, in the desert where only the polar bear lives, unlearn to pray and curse, unlearn man and god, become a ghost flitting across the glaciers?

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going.

In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one world-being, he suffers in his own person the primordial contradiction that is concealed in things, which means that he commits sacrilege and suffers.

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whatever is done from love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All