Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
Friedrich NietzscheWe have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Friedrich NietzscheEvery man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.
Friedrich NietzscheWe take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.
Friedrich NietzscheI love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
Friedrich Nietzsche