Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

"Art is the proper task of life."

"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."

"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."

"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."

"Success has always been a great liar."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

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

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."