Friedrich Nietzsche

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Never Forget!- The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

A gauge for wisdom.- The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Shedding one's skin. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the spirits who are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be spirit.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!