And Moses said unto the Lord, wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour
in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? -- Numbers 11:11
The most spiritual human beings, if we assume that they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most
painful tragedies: but just for that reason they honor life because it pits its greatest opposition against them.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1888)
I should like to know how much one must forgive a people in a total accounting when they have
had the most
painful history of all peoples, not without the fault of all of us, and when one owes to
them the noblest man
(Christ), the purest sage (Spinoza), the most powerful book, and the most
effective moral law in the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human (1878)
That seventh day will come once again on which the ancient Jewish
god may rejoice in himself,
his creation, and his chosen people
-- and all of us, all of us want to rejoice with him!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn (1881)