Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized
[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.
The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!
There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of thei...
Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.