"Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - ..." — 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.