Favorite quotes

“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

 

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn." : George Bernard Shaw

 

"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

 

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." : Nietzsche

 

"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received." : Storm Jameson

 

"Give all to love;obey thy heart." : Emerson

 

"Laughter is an instant vacation." : Milton Berle

 

"Cowardly dogs bark loudest." : John Webster

 

"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

 

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"I don't hate people, i just feel better when they aren't around." : Charles Bukowski

 

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?" : Nietzsche

 

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"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

 

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable". :JFK

 

"Success has always been a great liar". : Nietzsche