Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

"Not till we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

"When one hasn't any blue one doesn't paint blue."

"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."

"Existence without music would be an error."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"Whoever is not sick, does not need a physician."

"One does not kill by anger but by laughter."

"The strong of the future will always be determined by the weakness of the past."

"There is something laughable about the sight of authors who write books for people they do not know."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful woman left you, if you have never been kicked out in the middle of the night into the pouring rain without a taxicab in sight, you simply do not understand the modern condition."

"You are not big enough to accuse me. But I will not accuse you either. I pass."

"Life is the will to power."

"In the morning we carry the world like Atlas; at midday we throw it off; in the evening we stumble over it."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"I love those who do not know how to live except by going under, for they are those who cross over."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases."

"You must become who you are meant to be."

"All that is deep loves the mask."

"My solitude doesn't depend on the place I am, but rather on my mental detachment."

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

"One's own self-realization is by far the most important thing, and patience with others' failings."

"Sing a new song to a new age and you will accomplish more than he who forces the old song upon a new age."

"Ultimately, man finds only what he himself brings to the contemplation of things."

"Women who are too intelligent, sexually active, angry, or belligerent are undesirable. When women feel safe and protected, it brings out their softer side."

"Only the pain which passes through us is able to teach us."