We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.
The doer alone learneth.
Art is the proper task of life.
What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as litt...
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
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All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.