A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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...
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Love, too, has to be learned.
When thou goest to woman take thy whip.
In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a...
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.