Friedrich Nietzsche

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks.

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

Art is the proper task of life.

I teach you, the superman. Man is something to be surpassed

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. . . . Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty - he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world - alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.