“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?” : Nietzsche
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Nietzsche
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." : Caskie Stinnett
"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." : Storm Jameson
"It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself." : Robert Solow
"Some of the best lessons we have learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." : Dale E. Turner
"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character." : Benedictus de Spinoza
"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied." Nietzsche
