Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.”

“Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?”

“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”

“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”

“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”

“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”