"To become wise you have to want..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.”

“There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.”

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”

“They who are to be judges must also be performers.”

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”

“I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.”