Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse....
philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.
Plato was a bore.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under...
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of t...
In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.
...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal,...
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.