Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."

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

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

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

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

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

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

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."

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

"Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce."

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

"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."