Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?”

“Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”

“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“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.”

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

“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.”

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

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

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”

“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.”

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

“The doer alone learneth.”