"Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"One must still have chaos in oneself
to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences;
what others say in a whole book."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Existence really is
an imperfect tense
that never becomes a present."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who fights with monsters might take care
lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The advantage of a bad memory
is that one enjoys several times
the same good things for the first time."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Altered opinions do not
alter a man's character (or do so very little);
but they do illuminate individual aspects
of the constellation of his personality
which with a different constellation of opinions
had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Man... cannot learn to forget,
but hangs on the past:
however far or fast he runs,
that chain runs with him."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"To forget one's purpose
is the commonest form of stupidity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The great man fights the elements
in his time that hinder his own greatness,
in other words his own freedom and sincerity."
-Friedrich Nietzsche