Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music life would be a mistake.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Does wisdom, perhaps, appear on the earth as a raven, which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

And we should consider every day lost, on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false, which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

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

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.