Friedrich Nietzsche

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. ”

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. ”

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. ”

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. ”

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ”