The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
Friedrich NietzscheAstrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.
Friedrich NietzscheThe love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
Friedrich NietzscheIf we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
Friedrich Nietzsche