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. ”