Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich NietzscheFor it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
Friedrich NietzscheWe are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.
Friedrich NietzscheSuccess has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction
Friedrich Nietzsche