Friedrich Nietzsche

"I distrust all systematizers and I avoid them."

"The danger in the new always lies in the fact that it requires a new morality."

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide what we will believe about ourselves."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

"In the end, one only experiences oneself, and that is the whole secret."

"The more one judges oneself, the less one judges others."

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

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The same passions in man and woman still often make the marriage more bearable."

"A thought comes when we wish it, and not when we wish it."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"It is not enough to possess a talent; one must also have your permission to possess it."

"The will to overcome an emotion is ultimately only the will of another or of several other emotions."

"What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

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

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"Do not go in for conquests unless the conquered love you and beg for your mercy."

"A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely by proposing an original theory. He must also be right."

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

"The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."