When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way-not at all or in an interesting manner.
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
