Friedrich Nietzsche

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The lie is a condition of life.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

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

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Without music, life would be a mistake.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.