Friedrich Nietzsche

“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?”

“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”

“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”

“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.”

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?”

“Woman was God's second mistake.”

“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”

“The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.”

“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.”

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”