Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. – Lewis Mumford, “Orientation to Life,” The Conduct of Life, 1951