When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

I have known many who dislike themselves and try to rectify this by first persuading others to think well of them. Once that is done, then they begin to think well of themselves. But this is a false solution, this is submission to the authority of others. Your task is to accept yourself—not to find ways to gain my acceptance.”

“Maybe, Josef, living safely is dangerous. Dangerous and deadly.”

“TRUTH with capital letters!” Nietzsche exclaimed. “I forget, Josef, that scientists have still to learn that TRUTH, too, is an illusion—but an illusion without which we can’t survive.

Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.”

Freud jotted down a few more sentences

“Goals? Goals are in the culture, the air. You breathe them in. Every young boy I grew up with inhaled the same goals. We all wanted to climb out of the Jewish ghetto, to rise in the world, to achieve success, wealth, respectability. That’s what everybody wanted! No one of us ever set about deliberately choosing goals—they were just there, the natu

Sexual lust is, at bottom, lust for total dominance over the mind and body of the other.”

Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices!”

One person is about to cross the footbridge—that is, get closer to the other—when the second person invites him to do the very thing he planned. Then the first person cannot take the step because now it would seem as though he were submitting to the other—power apparently getting in the way of closeness.”