We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usu... - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"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."

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

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