Friedrich Nietzsche

"I have forgotten my umbrella."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

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

"Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, à ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant à celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute à son tour."

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

"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"Plato was a bore."

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

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

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

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises."

"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood."

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

"It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better."