"Art is the proper task of life" — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Source: Cato, act 2 (1713)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Source: Walden (1854)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Source: Walden (1854)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quote