Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”

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

“Woman was God's second mistake.”

“The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.”

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

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

“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”

“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”

“He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”