Friedrich Nietzsche

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and imprisonment."

"Talent is an expansion of intelligence."

"One should avoid praising books one has not read."

"The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment."

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it."

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

"I praise and honor the tough and hardened; I even love them."

"So far all that has given color to existence lacks any proof of its truth."

"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with their blood."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play."

"Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action."

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you."

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"At the base of all distinguished culture we find savage and productive power."

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"If we have our 'why' of life we can put up with almost any 'how'."

"I need music more than food to survive."

"The beautiful exists just as little as the true."

"Every philosophy is a philosophy of some stage of life."

"The essence of all noble beauty does not lie in multiplicity."

"I am not in favor of faith, but of knowledge."

"Nature is not a moral teacher."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils."

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

"Man grows accustomed to anything."

"In truth, there is no greater antidote to the Enlightenment than the Enlightenment itself."