The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--a...
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Great intellects are skeptical.
What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of v...
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
If you know the why, you can live any how.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?