"The less men are fettered by tradition,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.”

“We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.”

“A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.”

“A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.”

“There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.”

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.”

“That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.”

“Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.”

“Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.”