Character: Friedrich Nietzsche. Page 4

In moments of joyful dreams, I hoped that fate would protect me from the terrible need to educate myself and that in due time I would find an educator - in some philosopher, a true philosopher who can be trusted.

What a torment these great artists, in general, great people for the one who once solved them!

Hug, millions!

Everything that exists is just and unjust, and in both cases it can be justified.

The philosopher should not assume the role of judge at all.

Spirit is life, which itself inflicts wounds on life: and its own suffering increases its understanding.

In man, the creature and the creator are united.

The disease can be an energetic stimulus to life, to prolong life.

Happiness in life is impossible; the highest that man can attain is an existence full of heroism.

The Thinker needs no one to refute him; he satisfies himself in this respect!

Suffering does not make a person better, it makes him deeper.

He who does not live in the sublime, like at home, perceives the sublime as something terrible, false.

There is as much wisdom in pain as there is in pleasure: pain, like pleasure, refers to the most important forces aimed at the development of the race.

No thing succeeds if enthusiasm does not take part in it.