Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all the evil I deem you capable.  Therefore I want the good from you.  Verily I have often laughed at weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Love is not consolation.  It is light.

    What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.
    The hour when you say, 'What matters my happiness? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment. But my happiness ought to justify existence itself.'
    The hour when you say, 'What matters my reason? Does it crave knowledge as the lion his food? It is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.'
    The hour when you say, 'What matters my virtue? As yet it has not made me rage. How weary I am of my good and my evil! All that is poverty and filth and wretched contentment.'

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.