

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
―
―

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
―
―

“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
Jade’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jade’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Classics, Crime, History, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spirituality, and Theology
Polls voted on by Jade
Lists liked by Jade