Friedrich Nietzsche “Beyond Good and Evil”

What makes heroic? – To go to meet simultaneously one’s greatest sorrow and one’s greatest hope.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a miracle.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The worst enemy you can encounter will always be yourself.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.

Your educators can only be your liberators.