"People to whom their daily life appears..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.”

“No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.”

“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself”

“Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.”

“Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.”

“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.”

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

“Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

“It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.”