Friedrich Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.