Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.