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Martyrdom (n.) is life-affirming — Out of the very love one bears to life one should wish death to be free, deliberate, and a matter neither of chance or of surprise.
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Martyrdom (n.) for truth: we would not be burned for our opinions — we're not sure enough of them — but perhaps for the right to have them and to change them.
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Martyrdom (n.) proves nothing: going through fire for your teaching means less than your teaching coming out of your own fire.
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Martyrdom (n.) is a sacrifice offered to one's desire for power — to keep the feeling of being 'on top' as the one who possesses Truth.
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Martyrdom (n.) for the truth spoils the innocence of a philosopher's conscience, stupefies and brutalizes him — as though truth were so incompetent a creature as to need protectors.
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Martyrdom (n.) as suffering for truth is in bad taste, something for the ambitious and the stage heroes of the spirit, while philosophers have something to do for the truth.
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Martyrdom (n.) harms the truth: a mistake that has become honourable has one more seductive charm.
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Martyrdom (n.) of Dionysus and of the Crucified differs not in itself but in its meaning: life's own fruitfulness and recurrence creates torment, or suffering counts as an objection to life.
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Martyrdom (n.) should be spent on something with dignity and greatness, not on a theory about the nourishment of matter: let us fight, and if possible not for windmills.
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Martyrdom (n.) of the philosopher, his sacrifice for truth, exposes the agitator and actor hiding in him; better to go into hiding with your masks and manners.