Nietzsche, Friedrich

"Existence is just a process of moving from one state of being to another."

"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us."

"Wars are waged by the young for the ambitions of the old."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Knowledge and wisdom are not the same."

"Whoever climbs the highest will find he has climbed alone."

"The purpose of life is not happiness but accomplishment."

"All that is interesting is now found in your own self."

"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."

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

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

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."

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

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent oneself from being cast in jail. But anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."

"In the love of man for woman, injustice often hides behind the word virtue."

"Be careful, lest in escaping Scylla you fall into Charybdis."

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos within you."

"Christianity gave eros poison to drink; he did not die of it certainly, but degenerated into vice."

"There is no greater power on earth than that of the human will when it is focused and determined."

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

"A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

"The best weapon against injustice is to expose it to the light of public opinion."

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

"Art is the justification of existence."

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was forgiveness, the second step was truth, and the third step was faith."