Friedrich Nietzsche

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. ”