Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.