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"To give style" to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercise...  
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?  
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not p...   Faith
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the ...  
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surpri...  
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person ...  
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh da...  
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to en...  
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wa...  
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.  
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only ...  
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it ...  
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.  
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for th...  
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prev...  
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.  
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?  
Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little)...  
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches the...  
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.  
And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain cu...  
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.  
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at l...  
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us ...  
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth ...  
Art is the proper task of life.  
Art raises its head where creeds relax.  
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only ...  
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do...  
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the gr...  
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blund...  
Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear no...  
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than b...  
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degen...  
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.  
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants ...  
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!  
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired b...  
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.  
Enduring habits I hate... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel gr...  
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.  
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not...  
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary ...  
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.  
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than liste...  
Fear is the mother of morality.  
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certa...  
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.  
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.  
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a ...  
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.  
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.  
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a m...  
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.  
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.   Life
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.  
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk a...  
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torm...  
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it ...  
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.  
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be t...  
I love those who do not know how to live for today.  
I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!  
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.  
Idleness is the parent of psychology.  
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and i...  
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something...   Forgiveness
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.  
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with r...  
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.  
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.  
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and ...  
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same...  
In music the passions enjoy themselves.   Music
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees every...  
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, na...  
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?  
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?  
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets throu...  
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my...  
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole b...  
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy ...  
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few wor...  
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the...  
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living...  
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.  
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for t...  
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ...  
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it t...  
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in purs...  
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.  
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.  
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.  
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.  
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men....  
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened ...  
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason a...  
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aes...  
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...  
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will...  
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming m...  
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times wh...  
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tell...  
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dan...  
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really th...  
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.  
Only sick music makes money today.  
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually ...  
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words di...  
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they h...  
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers s...  
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so dee...  
Plato was a bore.  
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a bre...  
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.  
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.  
Success has always been a great liar.  
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.  
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.  
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something th...  
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the for...  
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.  
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the w...   Religion
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy,...  
The doer alone learneth.  
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.   Art
The future influences the present just as much as the past.  
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill te...  
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelm...  
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rat...  
The lie is a condition of life.  
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but als...  
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others...  
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous...  
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes err...  
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose ...  
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher...  
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wan...  
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality the...  
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.  
There are no facts, only interpretations.  
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe t...  
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some re...  
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects th...  
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.  
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and ke...  
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.  
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that...  
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, s...  
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of...   Death
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so man...  
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.  
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; ...  
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.  
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserve...  
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown...  
We have art in order not to die of the truth.  
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are use...  
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of va...  
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least...  
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.  
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.  
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to pow...  
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not sufferin...  
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he...  
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the i...  
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and get...  
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you wil...   Age
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing poss...  
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.  
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that...  
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.  
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.  
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.  
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him...  
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does n...  
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.  
Without music, life would be a mistake.   Music
Woman was God's second mistake.  
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bo...  
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it -...  
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct wa...  
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.