- "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
- "I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
- "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself don't become a monster in the process. If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
- "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
- "There are no facts, only interpretations."
- "Become who you are."
- "Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious."
- "The worst enemy you can meet will be always yourself."
- "A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies."
- "Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it was stolen."
- "The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man."
- "There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."
- "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
- "There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
- "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- "There are two different types of people, those who want to know, and those who want to believe."
- "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
- "Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions."
- "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."
- "I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company."
- "A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
- "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
- "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego."
- "Who obeys, don't't listen to themselves."
- "A moral system valid for all is basically immoral."
- "I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers."
- "Convictions are prisons."
- "The one necessary thing a person must have either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge."
- "No artist tolerates reality."
- "To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is hard saying but an ancient all-too-human principle (...)Without cruelty there is no festival."
- "The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell."
- "That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts."
- "It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent, but the conflict of belief in opinions."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher and poet