When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

Freud jotted down a few more sentences

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.”

“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.

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

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.”

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

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

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

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