Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
Friedrich NietzscheMarriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
Friedrich NietzscheOur vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
Friedrich NietzscheThe moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
Friedrich Nietzsche