"There's no defense against stupidity...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.”

“If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.”

“Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.”

“I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.”

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.”

“He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.”

“When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.”