“There is something in the Nietzschean notion of value to explode all recognized, established values, something to create, in a state of permanent creation, new things that escape all recognition and every establishment. There you have a positive getting back to Nietzsche, how to philosophize with a hammer: never what is known, but a great destruction of the known, for the creation of the unknown.” Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands, 136.
“The worst enemy you can encounter will always be you, yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caves and woods. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself. And your way leads past yourself and your seven devils. You will be a heretic to yourself and a witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and a villain. You must wish to consume yourself in your own flame: how could you wish to become new unless you had first become ashes! I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.” Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Book.
“Harsh and horrible ethics can be the consequence of a surplus of life: since a lot can be risked, a lot can be challenged, a lot can also be squandered. Strong ages, noble cultures see pity, ‘neighbor love,’ and the lack of self and self-feeling as something contemptible. Ages should be measured by their positive forces – we moderns with our anxious self-solicitude and our neighbor love, with our virtues of work, modesty, lawfulness, and science – accumulating, economic, machine-like – we are a weak age. Equality essentially belongs to decline: the rift between people, between classes, the myriad number of types, the will to be yourself, to stand out, what I call the pathos of distance, is characteristic of every strong age.” Nietzsche, Skirmishes of an Untimely Man 37
Derelict Space 