"And many such good inventions are there,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.”

“Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”

“Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?”

“It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.”

“At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.”

“The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.”

“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”

“I try not to invent things that people don't need.”

“Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.”