"One must know how to conserve oneself-..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”

“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”

“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”

“A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.”

“I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.”

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”

“There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.”

“Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.”