Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

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.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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

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

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

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

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