Muhammad 's Key Ideas from Human, All Too Human
by Friedrich Nietzsche

"Marriage as a long conversation. - When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

"It is a common blindness to be unaware of the dark sides of things. But to be unaware of their bright sides is even worse."

"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."

"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."

"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts."

"Doing is everything."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

 "We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

"A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."