Friedrich Nietzsche

Moralities are also only a sign-language of the emotions.

The future of man is a great wager.

War and courage have done more great things than love of the neighbour.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to cleanse ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

I assess the value of a man by how much he can endure without falling apart.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning.

A good war hallows any cause.

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments; their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens which crush others, a recreation.

The desire for peace, the most common desire of all, is a sign of weakness in a society.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

What is freedom? The will to be responsible for oneself. To hold oneself to the strictest standard, to be able to overcome shame, to be able to say no to one's desires.

The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all is called 'life.'

Only sick people have a right to be doctors of mankind.

The greatest danger for all higher men is that they are called to be judges and executioners of their own time.

The common herd of humanity is nothing more than a collection of failures and abortions.

I fear that we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

The most dangerous thing one can do is to be right when the world is wrong.

The will to a system is a lack of integrity.