Friedrich Nietzsche

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different?

How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

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

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The strength of a person's spirit is measured by how much truth he can comprehend without any softening.

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

The Jews are the most remarkable nation of world history because, faced with the question of being or not being, they preferred, with a perfectly uncanny conviction, being at any price.

The last Christian died on the cross.

Pity is the practice of nihilism.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison.

Democracy represents the disbelief in great human beings and an elite society.