Friedrich Nietzsche

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The lie is a condition of life.

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

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.