Friedrich Nietzsche

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

“Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”

“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“It is the duty of the free man to live for his own sake, and not for others... Exploitation does not belong to a depraved or an imperfect and primitive state of society... it is a consequence of the intrinsic Will to Power, which is just the Will to Live.”

“Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared--this must someday become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.”

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness.”

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

“Without music life would be a mistake.”