All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
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...
The bite of conscience is indecent.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.