Friedrich Nietzsche

“Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toeholds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for better footholds, for reason too wants to reach that alluring goal which its divine comrade has long since reached.”

“Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.”

“The quest for philosophical beginnings is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels.”

“A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."”

“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”

“We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.”

“Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.”

“Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.”

“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”

“Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”

“From the military school of life. — What does not kill me makes me stronger.”