Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ”

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. ”

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. ”

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ”

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ”

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. ”

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ”

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. ”

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' ”

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. ”