Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

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

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

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.