Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work"it... - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play"

"Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule."

"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."

"love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber,"to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself."

"To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."