Friedrich Nietzsche

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”

“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”

“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”

“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'”

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”

“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”

“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.”

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.”

“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”

“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”