Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this? Never Give In!

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time. Beyond Good and Evil

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Emma

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Book III