Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!
Friedrich NietzscheThe aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of โeternityโ; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book โ what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich NietzscheWoman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
Friedrich NietzscheWhoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
Friedrich NietzscheOne day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
Friedrich Nietzsche