"I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
Katherine Mansfield, Journal, 1922.

“Virtue is noble and laudable because people practice it in spite of the meager rewards they receive for their pain and suffering.”

I want wars, in which those filled with vital energy expel the others: this question should dissolve all bonds and drive out those who are world-weary—you should kick them out, shower them with every form of contempt, or lock them up in madhouses, drive them to despair, etc.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.
-Novalis

https://mansworldmag.online/nietzsche-and-his-century/

“If the word ‘untimely’ is applicable to anyone, it is Nietzsche. One searches in vain throughout all of his thought for any indication that he might have yielded inwardly to any vogue or fad.”

-Man’s World classics: Spengler’s “Nietzsche And His Century”.

«Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death».