Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every one of us is in hiding from the world, and our task is not to hide ourselves further."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions."

"We ought to learn from the past and prepare for the future without ever wasting a moment of the present in regrets."

"War has always been the grand sagacity of every political body; it is the moving principle of all its functions."

"A person of genius can hardly be polite; a polite person is hardly a genius."

"I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed."

"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies."

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be content to converse well with this woman into your old age?"

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth comes only from the senses."

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

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"One must have a goal in life, unless one wants to be destroyed by meaninglessness."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

"Master and slave relate to each other in ways that transcend power."

"A nation needs a goal, a center of gravity. Without it, it becomes a mere geographic term."

"Art is the justification of existence."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

"Ultimately, one must accept that the meaning of life differs from man to man, and from moment to moment."

"It is only the exceptions that succeed in this life. The mass perishes."

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."

"The hardest of all trades is that of being a really great writer."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"There will always be a conflict between the will to create and the will to love."

"A man is great not because he has not failed; a man is great because failure has not defined him."

"Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong."

"Every custom which has become natural was at one time an innovation."

"Man would rather will nothingness than not will."

"The best revenge is not to become like your enemy."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."