One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the r...
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of...
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking,...
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
Plato was a bore.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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?
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.