Friedrich Nietzsche

"Plato was a bore."

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

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

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Art is the proper task of life."

"I am one thing, my writings are another."

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

"All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

"Success has always been a great liar."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."