Plato is boring. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

God is dead. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108

Morality is herd instinct in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded...

I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if...