There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Friedrich NietzscheSome people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.
Friedrich NietzscheThe complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
Friedrich NietzscheAnd if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
Friedrich NietzscheIt is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
Friedrich NietzscheFrom the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.
Friedrich Nietzsche