Friedrich Nietzsche

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.”

“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”

“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.”

“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.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.”

“When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.”

“Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and...”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”