The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich NietzscheIn intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
Friedrich NietzscheMy conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
Friedrich NietzscheHe who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.
Friedrich Nietzsche