Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!