Nietzsche

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

“All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.”

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”