What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Belief means not wanting to know what is true.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the...
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably...
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.