Friedrich Nietzsche

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"A good wife is one who serves her husband in the home and sleeps with the whole world."

"The demand to give up illusions about the condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."

"I teach no doctrine except the doctrine of the will to live and the struggle for existence."

"The ascetic ideal has a goal—and that goal is so universal that it cannot be evaded."

"Memory is a sloppy photographer that uses our moods to develop the pictures of our past."

"The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain."

"One must be clever enough not to become a victim of one's own cleverness."

"All that is done for love is done beyond good and evil."

"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

"The man of knowledge must be able to love his enemies."

"The artist is the medium through which the world speaks."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

"In every genius there is a madness and in every madness there is a genius."

"The noble human being is a function of historical development."

"Sleeping is no mean art; for its sake one must stay awake all day."

"The weak are the most dangerous, because they have the most to gain and the least to lose."

"One who has been kind can become unkind; one who is unkind can learn kindness."

"An attack on the life of an orator is almost base ingratitude."

"Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The time for small talk is over."

"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rebrand our evil as what is best in us."

"The one who does not know the evil will not recognize goodness either."

"Sometimes people use thought only to justify their injustices."

"The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you seduce the senses to it."

"A person of deep intelligence senses in everything that happens the presence of the divine."

"We have art lest we perish from the truth."