Friedrich Nietzsche
“To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
“What is done out of love is beyond good and evil.”
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“Become who you are!”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”