Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
Friedrich NietzscheYouth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.
Friedrich NietzscheIn loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
Friedrich Nietzsche