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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Arts and Artists
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fanatics and Fanaticism
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fallibility
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Facts
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Facts
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Experience
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"A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Experience
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"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Excellence
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enjoyment
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enemies
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"The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Disability
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Adversity
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"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Bores and Boredom
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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

Cato The Elder on Silence
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"So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on Kindness
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"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."

Lebowitz, Fran on Beauty
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"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Frankness
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Friends and Friendship
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"Only sick music makes money today."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Music
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"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Morality
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"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Men
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Marriage
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"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Love
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"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Life and Death
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"The lie is a condition of life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Lies and Lying
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Laughter
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"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Knowledge
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"A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Inaction
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"We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Image
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Humility
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Humankind
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Heaven
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"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on God
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"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on God
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"Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God."

Proverb, Hasidic on Fear
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"Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as Call Me God) to KCMG (Kindly Call Me God) to GCMG (God Calls Me God)."

Sampson, Anthony on Autobiography
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"Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess."

Milton, John on Temptation
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"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."

Socrates on Love
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