"Insects sting, not from malice, but because..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”

“A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.”

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”

“The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.”

“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.”

“Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.”

“We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.”