"What an age experiences as evil is..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.”

“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”

“there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives”

“Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.”

“Discontent is the seed of ethics.”

“It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”

“The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.”

“Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”