Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, All Too Human

By Oneself Alone

627 Living and experiencing. -If we consider how some individuals know how to manage their experiences – their insignificant daily experiences – so that these become a field that bears fruit three times a year; while others – and how many they are ! – though driven through the pounding waves of the most stimulating destinies and the most varied currents of ages and peoples, still remain like a cork, ever buoyant, ever on the surface: we are finally tempted to divide humanity into a minority (a minimality) of those who understand how to make a great deal out of very little and a majority of those who understand how to make very little out of a great deal; indeed, we encounter those reverse wizards who, instead of creating the world out of nothing, create a nothing out of the world.