Great intellects are skeptical.
Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.
He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on...
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the...
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain o...
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Only sick music makes money today.
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.
We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.