"Pity is the most agreeable feeling among..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.”

“My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!”

“Pity makes suffering contagious.”

“You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.”

“Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.”

“By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.”

“If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.”

“I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.”