Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.