Nietzsche on Freedom: “First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
François René de Chateubriand (1768-1848)
“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
Richard Jeffries (1848-1887)
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
“The tepee is much better to live in; always clean, warm in winter, cool in summer; easy to move … Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.”
Flying Hawk, Oglala Sioux Chief (1852-1931)
“But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”
Sir Francis Darwin (1848-1925)
“The primary office of a newspaper is the gathering of news … comment is free, but facts are sacred.”
Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1912)
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)