Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Be careful in casting out your devil 'lest you cast out the best thing about you.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us.