No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Friedrich NietzscheWe must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?
Friedrich NietzscheImpoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
Friedrich NietzscheEverywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
Friedrich NietzscheTo see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.
Friedrich Nietzsche