"Clever people are never credited with their..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.”

“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”

“The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.”

“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

“I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.”

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

“As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.”

“Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”

“No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.”