The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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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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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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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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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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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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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
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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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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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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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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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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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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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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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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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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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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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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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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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The doer alone learneth.
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