Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

"Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this"

"One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."

"Your educators can only be your liberators."