Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of a man is not measured by how much he loves, but by how much he is loved.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The secret of a joyful life is to live dangerously.

The ideal of the 'good man' is a slave morality.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

That which is falling, we should also push.

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.

The church has precisely as much truth as it needs to exist.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, how much pain, how much torture it endures and knows how to transform to its advantage.

Only sick people have moral systems.

Man's maturity: to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

The strongest and most evil spirits have so far advanced humanity the most: they have always rekindled the slumbering passions.

I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?

All great things perish through themselves, through an act of self-sublimation: thus perishes the law of morality.

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

The surest means of corrupting a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The 'Kingdom of God' is not a thing one waits for; it is a movement within us.

The greatest thoughts are the greatest experiences.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

A good marriage, it seems to me, is founded on the talent for friendship.