"Without passions you have no experience whatever...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”

“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.”

“Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.”

“All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.”

“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”

“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.”

“If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.”

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”