Nietzsche, Friedrich

"We should talk less and draw more."

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has made."

"The journalist: a weakly, miserable, creeping thing, commissioned by the wealthy to do their bidding."

"Pity is the greatest temptation to life."

"The belly does not listen to advice."

"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life."

"To accept oneself as one is; to make the best of it."

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil."

"Truth does not come into the world in the way a child comes into the world."

"Sometimes people use anger as a way to feel something real."

"We have art lest we perish from the truth."

"A stanza should have a clean, chaste, and severe beauty, like a lonely temple in a distant landscape."

"One must be prepared to spend time in boring work and conversation, as the price of accomplishment."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Democracy is the degeneration of power."

"What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and therefore cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face."

"The most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one tried to achieve."

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs."

"The greater the height the greater fall."

"To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering."

"You must be willing to ignore what people think of you."

"The strong will to live overcomes the desire for happiness."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work."

"The ascetic ideals' dominion is so complete that the anti-ascetic ideals are unable to even rise to the level of ideas."

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

"At the end of a beautiful day, give thanks, and rest easy knowing that tomorrow is a new beginning."

"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power."