Quotes: "To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both--a philosopher."-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE "Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher."-FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE "I envy such a man till I am green in the face. He is stupid. I am not disputing that, but perhaps the normal man should be stupid, how do you know? perhaps it is very beautiful, in fact."-Fyodor dostoyevsky "Only look about you: blood is being spilt in streams, and in the merriest way, as though it were champagne."-Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was "sublime and beautiful", the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether. But the cheif point was that all this was, as it were, not accidental in me, but as though it were bound to be so."-Fyodor Dostoyevsky ", to take offence simply on purpose, for nothing; and one knows oneself, of course, that one is offended at nothing; that one is putting it on, but yet one brings oneself at last to the point of being really offended."-Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."-Friedrich Nietzsche "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. "-Friedrich Nietzche "To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. "- Friedrich Nietzche