Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

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

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.