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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.