Friedrich Nietzsche

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. Love!

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The ‘B’ stands for whatever, depending on the day…beautiful or bully

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

You cannot settle the problems of Europe by long-distance telephone calls and telegrams. Round the table we must get!

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.