"There is no pre-established harmony between the..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.”

“Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”

“Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.”

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”

“My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.”

“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”

“There can be no happiness without good health”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.”