Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

Life itself appears to me as an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power: whenever the will to power fails there is disaster. My contention is that all the highest values of humanity have been emptied of this will — that the values of décadence, of nihilism, now prevail under the holiest names. 7. Christianity is called the religion of pity. — Pity stands in