Quotes from “Ecce Homo” by Friedrich Nietzsche

Here are quotes I selected from “Ecce Homo” by Friedrich Nietzsche.

• “mankind itself has become mendacious and false down to its deepest instincts — to the point of worshipping the inverse values to those which alone could guarantee it prosperity, future, the exalted right to a future.”
• “Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment.”
• “it is not morality that speaks thus, it is physiology that speaks thus. — Ressentiment, born of weakness, to no one more harmful than to the weak man himself — in the opposite case, where a rich nature is the presupposition, a superfluous feeling to stay master of which is almost the proof of richness.”
• “War is another thing. I am by nature warlike. To attack is among my instincts. To be able to be an enemy, to be an enemy — that perhaps presupposes a strong nature, it is in any event a condition of every strong nature.”
• “Truly, Zarathustra is a strong wind to all flatlands; and he offers this advice to his enemies and to all that spews and spits: take care not to spit against the wind!”
• “Sit as little as possible; credit no thought not born in the open air and while moving freely about — in which the muscles too do not hold a festival.”
• “what do I care about the pitiable chatter of…