Friedrich Nietzsche

“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”

“Success has always been the greatest liar”

“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a...”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.”

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

“The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought, for one would thereby dispense with man himself.”

“Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life: by its own torture doth it increase its own knowledge,--did ye know that before?”

“We know so little, and have difficulty learning: so we have to lie for that reason only.”

“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all, will give honor to valor once again. For this age shall prepare the way for...”

“Valoare au doar ideile după care ai umblat.”

“Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.”

“None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.”

“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it to...”

“On the whole, scientific methods are at least as important results of investigation as any other results, for the scientific spirit is based upon a knowledge of method, and if the methods we...”

“Indeed, on close inspection one sees that by far the greater number of educated people still desire convictions from a thinker and nothing but convictions, and that only a small minority wan...”

“Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that sud...”

“Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?”

“All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.”

“They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!”