The lie is a condition of life.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
The doer alone learneth.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Woman was God's second mistake.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
art, being good & respect
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Fear is the mother of morality.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.