Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

"I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore."

"Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!"

"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness"

"It is the evening that questions thus from within me."

"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."

"And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water."

"I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and a worse dream reawakeneth out of his first sleep.—But there is something in me which I call courage: it hath hitherto slain for me every dejection. This courage at last bade me stand still and say: "Dwarf! Thou! Or I!"—For courage is the best slayer,—courage which attacketh: for in every attack there is sound of triumph. Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby hath he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph hath he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain. Courage slayeth also giddiness at abysses: and where doth man not stand at abysses! Is not seeing itself—seeing abysses?Courage is the best slayer: courage slayeth also fellow-suffering. Fellow-suffering, however, is the deepest abyss: as deeply as man looketh into life, so deeply also doth he look into suffering. Courage, however, is the best slayer, courage which attacketh: it slayeth even death itself; for it saith: "Was that life? Well! Once more!"

"You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill."

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

"No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse."

"You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'."

"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."

"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."

"Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows."

"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."

"Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."

"Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind."

"Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable."

"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst"