Friedrich Nietzsche

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

No journey is too great,_x000D_ when one finds what one seeks.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Great intellects are skeptical.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.