Friedrich Nietzsche

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

"Man's task is not to create meaning but to uncover it."

"The most common form of human error is forgetting what one was trying to do in the first place."

"He who has overcome his fear will have power over everyone else who is afraid."

"The man who cannot wait for his reward has not truly suffered."

"All truly great things must burn and bleed before they can be born."

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

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

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

"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"Beware of the little old women who whisper: life is not a struggle."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die."

"A man may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them."

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

"In the end things must be as they are and have always been—the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, and the delicacies for the refined."

"That which is falling should also be pushed."

"I do not trust him who fasts, but I trust him who hungers for knowledge."

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

"You must have strength and conviction to live as an individual."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"One's own self is well hidden from oneself; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up."

"The falsest judgments are those which declare someone to be weak or worthless."

"I would believe only in a God that could dance."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Arrogance is precisely the opposite of arrogance. The truly great person is humble and does not boast."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to stay out of prison."

"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

"It is not enough to be right; one must also know how to present one's rightness."

"The greatest human achievement is not knowledge, but the will to power."