Nietzsche, Friedrich

"The sick are the greatest danger to the healthy; it is not the strongest who are dangerous to the strong, but the weakest."

"One should not work on Sundays. One should work on weekdays, but not so strenuously as to be tempted to work on Sundays."

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

"If you knew what you were going to write when you started, would you write it?"

"There are no eternal facts, only eternal interpretations."

"The best revenge is massive success."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it illwill."

"What does not kill me, makes me wiser."

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

"It is not the magnitude of his fear but the magnitude of his love for adventure that must be measured."

"Do you have ears? Do you have a heart? Then do not believe those who speak of the failure of life."

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

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

"We have art so that we shall not perish from the truth."

"A thought comes when 'it' wishes, and not when 'I' wish, so that a thought comes a guest and uninvited."

"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."

"In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man."

"Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be illumined."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

"The noble person is worthiest of honor; yet at the same time, humility is a virtue."

"One pays heavily for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper."

"As little as a human being consists of nothing but sexuality, just so little is his cultural creation concerned with nothing but sexuality."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Nobody talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul is not sure of their existence."

"A man can endure almost any how if he has a why."

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

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