It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convicti… - Friedrich Nietzsche

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what their ways bring: they undermine the will to power; they level mountain and valley, and call that morality; they make men small, cowardly, and hedonistic [genüsslich] — every time it is the herd animal that triumphs with them. Liberalism: in other words, herd-animalization ...

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.