Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in Gods great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. – Donald Cargill