Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.”

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”

“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.”

“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”

“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.”

“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”

“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.”

“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”

“The lie is a condition of life.”

“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

“What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?”

“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”

“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”

“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”