Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

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

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

"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."

"A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."

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

"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"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."