"One does not know - cannot know..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?”

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

“I am almost equal to a shadow.”

“Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.”

“The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.”

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”

“One's only real life is the life one never leads.”

“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.”

“The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.”