Friedrich Nietzsche

“Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.”

“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”

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

“There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.”

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

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

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

“The lie is a condition of life.”

“Love is not consolation. It is light.”

“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”

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

“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”

“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.”

“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”

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