An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all...
In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Woman was God's second mistake.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the...
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world...
The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.