Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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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.
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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her tr...
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Freedom exists only with power.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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