"Only strong personalities can endure history, the..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.”

“Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.”

“In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.”

“I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.”

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

“This is the great fact: strength is life.”

“He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!”

“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”

“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”