love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
Friedrich NietzscheEverything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.
Friedrich NietzscheThe idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche