Friedrich Nietzsche

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

There is always some madness in love.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.