"I hate who steals my solitude, without..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.”

“love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.”

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

“All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

“I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.”

“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”

“I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.”

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”