Friedrich Nietzsche

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“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.”

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

“What does not destroy me, makes me strong.”

“Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.”

“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”

“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.”

“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.”

“Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.”

“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”

“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”

“The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.”

“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.”