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- For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 283
- We are always in our own company.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 166
- I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 381
- Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows
- What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Antichrist, section 2
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Antichrist, section 16
- 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part III, Act I, sc. 4
- Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
- To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
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