The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.
Friedrich NietzscheThe errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Friedrich NietzscheThe genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
Friedrich Nietzsche