"Love is a state in which a..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.”

“I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.”

“The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.”

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

“Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.”

“Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

“The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”