Friedrich Nietzsche

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. ”

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. ”

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. ”

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. ”

Plato was a bore. ”

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. ”

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ”

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ”

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ”