Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who has a 'why' to live, can bear almost any 'how'.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

One should not talk much about oneself, when one has done nothing.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that originates in weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Many a man is too proud to beg, and too poor to starve.

He who has seen the world as a whole, can it be that he has not also seen it as a joke?

The most common lie is that with which one lies to oneself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

He who cannot give anything, cannot feel anything.

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

And if you are a friend of wisdom, then do not be a friend of the mob.

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

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

What does your conscience say? 'You should become the person you are.'

The best way to spend the day is to run it in such a way that you don't even need to remember it.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

The 'great man' is a great bow from which great arrows are shot.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

All literature is a lie.