Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Amor Fati – Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?