Nietzsche, Friedrich

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's windows from being broken; but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"I teach you the overman. Man is something that is to be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?"

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Love is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship."

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"Every genius is necessarily naive and simple."

"A liar is more honest than someone who speaks the truth out of fear."

"Life is that which is worth living; it is creative, destructive, and ultimately mysterious."

"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."

"One thing is needful. To give style to one's character."

"Do not go in to evil to avoid evil."

"The sick are the greatest danger to the healthy; it is not the strong that harm the weak, rather it is the weak that harm the strong."

"Madness is something rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, peoples, ages, it is the rule."

"The will to live is strongest in the person who has something meaningful to live for."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."

"The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously."

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

"We accept our relatives as they are because we have no choice, and that is where peace begins."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

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

"Knowledge is power only if it is converted into action."

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

"The will to power is the fundamental human drive."

"Solitude is independence."

"Art is the justification of existence."

"The ultimate man is the one who creates new values."

"One should not make oneself a slave to science."